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Am I so used to typos in Eric Allie-drawn cartoons that I swear this one's a re-run? I think Allie's done that worse/worst thing before.
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prefect posted:They sound close enough that people get them confused sometimes. It's going to be another one of those situations where the dictionaries wimp out and go along with it just because people talk that way. The major dictionaries people use are descriptive, not prescriptive. They record the language as it's used, not as the author believes it should be used. They're not wimping out, they're acknowledging reality, even if that leads to unfortunate losses of clarity like "literally" not always literally meaning literally.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:The major dictionaries people use are descriptive, not prescriptive. They record the language as it's used, not as the author believes it should be used. They're not wimping out, they're acknowledging reality, even if that leads to unfortunate losses of clarity like "literally" not always literally meaning literally. Descriptivists are spineless pussies. 
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prefect posted:Descriptivists are spineless pussies. Enjoy your "thou"s and "ye"s then I guess, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for a book that doesn't allow you to tell what someone actually means when they use a word like "computer", "monitor", or "mouse".
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Taciturn Tactician posted:The major dictionaries people use are descriptive, not prescriptive. They record the language as it's used, not as the author believes it should be used. They're not wimping out, they're acknowledging reality, even if that leads to unfortunate losses of clarity like "literally" not always literally meaning literally. Good dictionaries will have "usage note" where they tell "this meaning is completely wrong by the way, but a lot of people use it anyway". prefect posted:Descriptivists are spineless pussies. Prescriptivism is good for teaching how language should be spoken; descriptivism is good for explaining how language is actually spoken. That makes descriptivism more useful generally; especially for foreign speakers who stumble upon some weird idiomatic usage that they don't understand.
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I just want to be able to smack people who think you don't need to add an "s" to pluralize words ending in "-ist"; is that so bad?
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tacodaemon posted:I just want to be able to smack people who think you don't need to add an "s" to pluralize words ending in "-ist"; is that so bad? Descriptivists will tell you you're bad. Well, they're the ones who are bad.
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I'll just leave the best gloss on prescriptive vs. descriptive usage here, although I don't know how well it'll be received in a thread that thinks First Dog on the Moon is too  http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf
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Volcanic Vents posted:I'll just leave the best gloss on prescriptive vs. descriptive usage here, although I don't know how well it'll be received in a thread that thinks First Dog on the Moon is too Hey, I follow Bryan A. Garner on Twitter. 
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I love the idea that alt-righters are convinced George Soros is this singular liberal shadowy billionaire, yet ignore the countless shadowy billionaires behind most political issues.
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Trogdos! posted:Garrison horseshit I thought Jill Stein was thin though.
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If there were a great court of the afterlife, where the gods laid all a persons actions and motivations behind them on the table and argued where you would go as a result, this particular case would be a fascinating one to hear. Castro was one of those people you hear everything about, from virtue to monstrosity... what does such a man deserve, at the end of 90 years in full? Damned if anyone's going to come to a consensus anytime soon.
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Alhazred posted:Deyr fé, Long John Silver never had fear of his enemies when they where alive, he will not start now that they are dead, Jim.
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resurgam40 posted:If there were a great court of the afterlife, where the gods laid all a persons actions and motivations behind them on the table and argued where you would go as a result, this particular case would be a fascinating one to hear. Castro was one of those people you hear everything about, from virtue to monstrosity... what does such a man deserve, at the end of 90 years in full? Damned if anyone's going to come to a consensus anytime soon. hah, that has nothing to do with afterlife, all that matters is he was catholic and therefore no true Christian 
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Nenonen posted:hah, that has nothing to do with afterlife, all that matters is he was catholic and therefore no true Christian Was he even that religious?
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Alhazred posted:Was he even that religious? I thought religion and communism weren't really compatible.
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Ranter posted:I thought religion and communism weren't really compatible. People always surprise me. They have like many pockets and they put stuff in different pockets, and sometimes they manage to put the same uncompatible thing in the same pocket (percepcion dissonance). So everything is possible.
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Ranter posted:I thought religion and communism weren't really compatible. Cognitive dissonance encompasses greater contradictions than that.
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prefect posted:Hey, I follow Bryan A. Garner on Twitter. Wow, I'll never say FLAK-sid, but followed, thanks for the hot tip!
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 1I'm a little shocked Payne passed on OLD CARS for his Castro obit.  2 3Athiest angel gettin' sassy.  4 5I'm the smiley face on the Debbie Does Dallas VHS.  6RAG  7 8Mad Whitey Glad Again  9 10My arms hurt just looking at this.  11 12
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Kurtofan posted:what do stein and soros have in common Names that get automatically surrounded by a triple pair of parentheses on Garrison's browser.
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Waitasecond. I don't normally agree with this guy. Something feels wrong.
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Trogdos! posted:Garrison Fuckin lmao at any Trump supporter whining about anyone calling for a recount when Trump himself was going on about rejecting the results before the election. Doubly funny with Trump just tweeting about how he only lost the popular vote because of "illegal votes." Also, I hope there's a special place in hell for people who unironically parrot "SAD!" (and other Trumpisms)
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Oxyclean posted:Fuckin lmao at any Trump supporter whining about anyone calling for a recount when Trump himself was going on about rejecting the results before the election. Doubly funny with Trump just tweeting about how he only lost the popular vote because of "illegal votes." Also, Trump's deleted all his tweets from four years ago, when he was saying the Electoral College was fraud and the popular vote is what's important.
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prefect posted:Also, Trump's deleted all his tweets from four years ago, when he was saying the Electoral College was fraud and the popular vote is what's important. The past week or two has been great seeing all these old Trump tweets that are super ironic now. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/474134260149157888
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Oxyclean posted:The past week or two has been great seeing all these old Trump tweets that are super ironic now. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/503316125405700096 This one is my favorite. 
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It amazes – well, not really amazes, seeing how they're hacks – me that wingnuts go balls-out on booga-booga Soros without ever once considering Sheldon Aldelson. For God's sake, he looks like this: But I guess their shadowy billionaires are good and honorable.
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Sandpuppy posted:
Also, it is December and the Gay Abortions will be upon us soon. I'm going to start work on it eventually. If anyone would like to help judge and count this year please send me a pm. EDIT: Well, near December. You know the hell I meant. World Famous W fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Where's Rainbow Dash? World Famous W posted:Huh, I normally hate the 'totally not a swastika, but you get it' flag symbols people use in movies and comics but I kind of like the design of the MW. I'm glad Mad Whitey got a cool logo. D.N. Nation posted:It amazes – well, not really amazes, seeing how they're hacks – me that wingnuts go balls-out on booga-booga Soros without ever once considering Sheldon Aldelson. For God's sake, he looks like this: He doesn't like liberals, so he's "one of the good ones". Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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