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DELETE CASCADE posted:i'm not disagreeing with you, honestly i find this line of argument compelling, but what language would you prefer instead? GNU
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i'm not disagreeing with you, honestly i find this line of argument compelling, but what language would you prefer instead? Not English
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May 9, 2024 06:01
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seriously though let's play this out, can you pick one? i feel like the only realistic candidates are spanish and chinese, possibly hindi?
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May 9, 2024 06:03
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DELETE CASCADE posted:seriously though let's play this out, can you pick one? i feel like the only realistic candidates are spanish and chinese, possibly hindi? Not English
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May 9, 2024 06:05
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you said this wasn't silly tori poo poo so uh sorry for engaging with your post i guess?
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May 9, 2024 06:07
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Something entirely new, it's only fair if everyone has to start from scratch
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DELETE CASCADE posted:you said this wasn't silly tori poo poo so uh sorry for engaging with your post i guess? Literally anything but English, I thought that was clear. Engilsh is uniquely terrible.
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May 9, 2024 06:10
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ah ok, why do you think that then? is english hosed up because of the people who happen to speak it, and those people suck, so they make it terrible? or something linguistically about english itself, independent of english speakers? e: please don't read this as hostile, i actually kinda subconsciously agree with you, and i'm hoping you have a better take on it than i do
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May 9, 2024 06:12
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English is annoying, but very few other languages have 8 different words to describe the same thing in differing ways
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in Norwegian and German you just say “I have to poop” instead of “I need to poo poo my brains out”
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the english language is not an anti-woke mind virus, tori. that's an idiotic idea. my best guess is you're very much doing a tori thing and you're gonna soon disingenuously say that by "english languge" you meant "english imperialism and western capitalist culture" all along etc. but if you really think there's something inherently destructive about the language that wouldn't have happened if history played out exactly the same except that people from england all spoke danish or arabic or quechua, i'll listen
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i thought most of the "english" were actually germans
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I am not doing silly tori poo poo here btw - the English language is an active detriment to the human race. I mean that sincerely. lmao FAT32 SHAMER posted:in Norwegian and German you just say “I have to poop” instead of “I need to poo poo my brains out” exactly. English is the language of poery.
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May 9, 2024 07:44
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:in Norwegian and German you just say “I have to poop” instead of “I need to poo poo my brains out” we have a couple of german people on our project and one thing i've noticed is they curse a lot more than you'd expect someone to in a professional setting maybe it's because they don't have those freedoms in their own language, they want to indulge in our expressive english profanity any chance they get
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May 9, 2024 07:49
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ADINSX posted:we have a couple of german people on our project and one thing i've noticed is they curse a lot more than you'd expect someone to in a professional setting its because they have basic worker protections and aren't afraid of angering management with their naughty words
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May 9, 2024 08:00
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:its because they have basic worker protections and aren't afraid of angering management with their naughty words nah cussing is just that much better in english
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:its because they have basic worker protections and aren't afraid of angering management with their naughty words it’s because they’re terrified of their german management and take the rare opportunity to blow off some steam when working with the americans
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May 9, 2024 08:06
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Roosevelt posted:exactly. English is the language of poery. yep. this borges bit is the best explanation of why english is the most poeric language imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYoqCDKoT4
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May 9, 2024 08:15
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fart simpson posted:it’s because they’re terrified of their german management and take the rare opportunity to blow off some steam when working with the americans lol if you’re afraid of your boss
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May 9, 2024 08:16
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:lol if you’re afraid of your boss in east germany they could complain about their boss but not their government. after reunification they could complain about their government but not their boss. or however that line goes
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May 9, 2024 08:18
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i'm not disagreeing with you, honestly i find this line of argument compelling, but what language would you prefer instead? i'm personally not sure on whether we need to get rid of english but the language is WAY overdue for a reform. spelling is insane. people have literal debates on "how is X pronounced" because they can't just deduce it from the way it's written. i've literally had an easier time conveying how to pronounce words in english by writing them down in cyrilic
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May 9, 2024 09:00
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goblin week posted:i'm personally not sure on whether we need to get rid of english but the language is WAY overdue for a reform. spelling is insane. people have literal debates on "how is X pronounced" because they can't just deduce it from the way it's written. i've literally had an easier time conveying how to pronounce words in english by writing them down in cyrilic thats part of the beauty of english. do you hate wordplay?
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May 9, 2024 09:01
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Roosevelt posted:nah cussing is just that much better in english The Quebecois swear pretty good too
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Roosevelt posted:nah cussing is just that much better in english cussing is worthless in english as well. you guys have like two swear words, and while yes, the versatility of "gently caress" is cool it just legitimately makes me feel like my feelings cannot be accurately conveyed
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goblin week posted:cussing is worthless in english as well. you guys have like two swear words, and while yes, the versatility of "gently caress" is cool it just legitimately makes me feel like my feelings cannot be accurately conveyed how do you say "cocksucker" in idk german?
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May 9, 2024 09:18
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Roosevelt posted:how do you say "cocksucker" in idk german? Rösevelt
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Roosevelt posted:how do you say "cocksucker" in idk german? Hahnsaugnapf
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Schwanzlutscher!
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PokeJoe posted:Rösevelt lol
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PokeJoe posted:Rösevelt 
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Jonny 290 posted:my current landlord, who in the last 3 months literally-and i mean literally- chainsawed the back door apart on the house next door to encourage transients so they could try getting a blight declaration - wants me to give a 60 day moveout notice. to which i lol and lmao. my friends old apartment wanted 8 months which made it real hard for her to figure out somewhere else to move since no where else in the city (or, like, anywhere) will let you have an 8 month lead time to move in
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Roosevelt posted:lmao idk if you meant "poetry" but i would think "pooery" would have 2 o's
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PokeJoe posted:Rösevelt pöery
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May 9, 2024 14:11
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Roosevelt posted:exactly. English is the language of poery. Beeftweeter posted:idk if you meant "poetry" but i would think "pooery" would have 2 o's
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Ruffian Price posted:Also makes you uniquely equipped to speak a lot and never say what you mean. Not that it's impossible to construct untrue statements (or bullshit, as in the Harry Frankfurt definition) in other languages, but English is on another level when it comes to capacity for polite dishonesty i thought the new yorker usually uses a single letter with an umlaut but idk i need caffeine
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quote:Are Tim Hortons' new lids 'woke'? One Conservative MP thinks so https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-tim-hortons-fibre-lids-1.7199306
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here's why English sucks: you can change a words meaning by just using it. in fact if you use it wrong enough you become right. woke, literally, etc
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getting the answer right in English is a fake idea so it leads to being dumb as dogshit
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I don't know anything about how this works in other languages because as an English speaker I too am dumb as dogshit
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