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Bae, grammatical correctness is on fleek, fam.
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Vargatron posted:Bae, grammatical correctness is on fleek, fam. Can SOMEONE EXPLAIN why I keep seeing terms like burnt (burned) and het (heated)???  why isn't 40 spelled "FOURTY"!!The funny thing is any qualified linguist will tell you AAVE and all manner of "lesser" dialects are just as valid as arbitrary 1950s grammar school style, as a means of communication.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:16
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Kit Walker posted:Words that are distinct and easier to tell apart than words that look very similar? Mind loving blown Evolved language is sounds, written language is an invention. People mistype homophones all the time. one/won is one i personally do a lot, because as spoken aloud the words are indistinct other than context. here/hear and where/wear happen too. *insert a million words on symbols and symbology
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Dec 8, 2016 17:20
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sweart gliwere posted:Can SOMEONE EXPLAIN why I keep seeing terms like burnt (burned) and het (heated)??? But have you considered... that qualified linguists are wrong 
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Dec 8, 2016 17:23
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I think I'm pretty sharp, but its/it's kicks my rear end all the time.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:34
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:But have you considered... that qualified linguists are wrong The objectively correct structure and comprehension level of the English language is "American 1970s precocious sixth grader"
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Dec 8, 2016 17:50
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jivjov posted:Also; what's up with the cognitive dissonance on the source of food stamp money? When people are employed, their taxes fund poo poo like food stamps; when they fall on hard times, they cash out what they've been paying in. It isn't money from nowhere, it isn't a free handout. It's literally something you pay into in case you need it later. Food stamps aren't directly tied to previous employment, so it's possible to take out more than you put in. Extrapolating linearly, I conclude that everyone on food stamps has never worked a day in their lives and just wants Big Daddy government to take care of them. sweart gliwere posted:Can SOMEONE EXPLAIN why I keep seeing terms like burnt (burned) and het (heated)??? http://xkcd.com/1735/
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Dec 8, 2016 19:40
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English is a dumb, broken, bastard of a language that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. We park in a loving driveway and drive on a loving parkway
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Dec 8, 2016 20:36
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Why is it cargo if it goes by ship, and shipment if it goes by car?
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Dec 8, 2016 20:39
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Jurgan posted:Food stamps aren't directly tied to previous employment, so it's possible to take out more than you put in. Extrapolating linearly, I conclude that everyone on food stamps has never worked a day in their lives and just wants Big Daddy government to take care of them. Hell, you could probably make it for every public program, but their whiny bitching at food stamps is in service of children not eating.
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Dec 8, 2016 21:49
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VideoTapir posted:Why is it cargo if it goes by ship, and shipment if it goes by car? This used to get me when I was younger, until I remembered that "cargo" and "shipment" were basically synonyms.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:09
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negromancer posted:No, white conservatives and white veterans freak out when the government tries to help them. It's why the FBI has to basically keep tight lipped about the whole "The KKK has been openly recruiting police officers for 25 years now and the man who killed Alton Sterling literally has a swastika on his arm". Do you have a source on this one? I looked and couldn't find anything. I know one of the 5 officers killed in Dallas earlier this year had a bunch of neo-nazi tattoos.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:29
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Augus posted:English is a dumb, broken, bastard of a language that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And what's the deal with airline food?
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Dec 8, 2016 23:26
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It's made of fetus parts, I saw it on EPORW.
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Dec 8, 2016 23:29
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think I'm pretty sharp, but its/it's kicks my rear end all the time. The dumb but helpful way my grammar teacher taught us was that contractions will always* include an apostrophe but possessives only sometimes, and the way to remember it is to think of the apostrophe as the fragment of the removed letter from when the words crashed together. It is = Itis = It's Also works with They Are = They're and several other, less easily confused contractions. So now any time I see the apostrophe I read it as "it is" which has had disastrous effects on my sanity when I read people who get it wrong. Welcome to hell. * I do not know if this is actually true, but it seems that way!
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Dec 8, 2016 23:46
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DarkHorse posted:The dumb but helpful way my grammar teacher taught us was that contractions will always* include an apostrophe but possessives only sometimes, and the way to remember it is to think of the apostrophe as the fragment of the removed letter from when the words crashed together. I do the exact same thing, which helps me to very rarely make apostrophe mistakes while also making said mistakes maddening to read.
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Dec 8, 2016 23:51
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DarkHorse posted:* I do not know if this is actually true, but it seems that way!
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Dec 8, 2016 23:54
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DarkHorse posted:The dumb but helpful way my grammar teacher taught us was that contractions will always* include an apostrophe but possessives only sometimes, and the way to remember it is to think of the apostrophe as the fragment of the removed letter from when the words crashed together. I think people care way too much about grammatical errors considering how fluent language is. Take any language, compare it to 100 years ago and you'll see a clear difference. I also think that with the rise of texting and twitter's 140 character limit, policing grammar is a losing battle.
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Dec 8, 2016 23:56
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Every time I see one of these stupid memes or see someone complaining about those words, it makes me so mad. Like, it's slang. Every generation has their own dumb slang. That kind of how language and dialect works, so stop complaining about it. 
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Dec 8, 2016 23:56
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Dexie posted:Every time I see one of these stupid memes or see someone complaining about those words, it makes me so mad. It is also vaguely racist given those specific words are slang with origins in the black community.
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Dec 8, 2016 23:58
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LunarShadow posted:It is also vaguely racist given those specific words are slang with origins in the black community. oh shut the gently caress up with your imagined racism.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:03
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Dalael posted:oh shut the gently caress up with your imagined racism. they're right tho unless this is another one of your lame attempts at "owning" the thread. Augus fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Dec 9, 2016 00:11
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Augus posted:they're right tho No. They're not. Just because "words" originated in the black community, does not mean its racist for others to use it. That's loving retarded and its literally making light of real racism that people actually face everyday. The words "Racism and racist" are being thrown out there randomly by people who have no loving clue of the meaning of the word, just like idiots who use the word rape for stupid poo poo like videogames.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:15
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Go talk to a black guy getting his rear end kicked by a cop, see if he gives a poo poo that a non black uses "Bae" or "fleek"
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Dec 9, 2016 00:16
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Dalael posted:No. They're not. Just because "words" originated in the black community, does not mean its racist for others to use it. good thing this isn't even close to what this discussion was about until, uh, about a minute ago apparently?
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Dec 9, 2016 00:16
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Dalael posted:No. They're not. Just because "words" originated in the black community, does not mean its racist for others to use it. That's loving retarded and its literally making light of real racism that people actually face everyday. The words "Racism and racist" are being thrown out there randomly by people who have no loving clue of the meaning of the word, just like idiots who use the word rape for stupid poo poo like videogames. I wasn't saying it was racist to use the slang, but the meme posted was vaguely racist because it was specifically poo poo talking black slang.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:16
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Dalael posted:just like idiots who use the word rape for stupid poo poo like videogames. And people who use "retarded" for stupid poo poo like forum posts?
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Dec 9, 2016 00:17
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Dalael posted:No. They're not. Just because "words" originated in the black community, does not mean its racist for others to use it. That's loving retarded and its literally making light of real racism that people actually face everyday. The words "Racism and racist" are being thrown out there randomly by people who have no loving clue of the meaning of the word, just like idiots who use the word rape for stupid poo poo like videogames.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:18
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coyo7e posted:Naw bro it's totally not racist for me to appropriate another culture's signifiers and then use them to insult that same culture This is a better version of the point I was trying to make
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Dec 9, 2016 00:19
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coyo7e posted:Naw bro it's totally not racist for me to appropriate another culture's signifiers and then use them to insult that same culture Welcome to earth. Populations: Billions of lovely persons. Racism can be found every-loving-where if you look THAT hard to find it. It reminds me when some idiot was saying that using "Calling a spade a spade" was racist because of yadiyadiyada. Its just plain ridiculous and it virtually insures that racism will never go away.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:23
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If you look deep and hard enough at minor subtleties like "the staunch opposition people have of anything that signifies african-american culture or really anything that strays at all from old school white american puritanism" then yeah, maybe you'll find racism. But why split hairs? 
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Dec 9, 2016 00:28
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You're pushing it. That meme was nowhere near as bad as you make it sound. Holy gently caress you guys are pushing this loving thing so hard, I'm literally running out of white guilt.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:29
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People ARE splitting hair all the time when it comes to this. Because too often, they fight about the most inane poo poo while letting real racism go on unpunished.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:32
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Unlike arguing on a forum to put a stop to "imagined racism", which isn't inane at all.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:35
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Dalael posted:Welcome to earth. Populations: Billions of lovely persons. "People will keep being racist if you encourage them to stop being racist." Literally that kelly cartoon dot jay peg
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Dec 9, 2016 00:38
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Dalael posted:You're pushing it. That meme was nowhere near as bad as you make it sound. Holy gently caress you guys are pushing this loving thing so hard, I'm literally running out of white guilt. Can't wait for you to tell us "dance puppets, dance" like you did in the other thread where you embarrassed yourself. Is your thing just embarrassing yourself on the internet wherever possible?
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Dec 9, 2016 00:42
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Nevvy Z posted:"People will keep being racist if you encourage them to stop being racist." Wow... How can you fail so hard at understanding something so loving simple. When you point out at stupid bullshit and claim its racism, then it virtually insure that racism doesn't go away. Because even if racism DID go away, you'd still be looking for things to point at and yell: RACISM! The simplicity of my point is this: Fight the real racism that occurs every single day, and stop pointing at fake things. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 9, 2016 00:45
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Jesus Christ, I have to believe Dalael's just trying to be the next Farooq at this point.
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We need to do something about all those thugs, with their baggy pants, and their gold teeth, and their R&B ringtones. No, I'm not racist, I never mentioned skin color. Maybe you're the real racist for assuming I was.
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Dalael posted:Wow... How can you fail so hard at understanding something so loving simple. When you point out at stupid bullshit and claim its racism, then it virtually insure that racism doesn't go away. Just wanna make sure here, are you still not aware that your original argument about "cultural appropriation being imagined racism" was completely off-base and pretty much a total sequitur? Or have you realized this fact but opted to dig yourself in further anyway? Or are you gonna say "Dance, Puppets, Dance" in your next post?
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