kitten smoothie posted:

these folks must also have no concept of what tech compensation actually is, because if you wanted an attack point it's a much lower hanging fruit than free lunch

FilthyImp posted:

Lol. Big mad about Freethink.

rjmccall posted:

in case it isn’t obvious, that shakespeare sex stuff is mostly just bored english teachers making stuff up. a lot of these supposed euphemisms are, like, the word was used in a way that was suggestive in context in some obscure work that nobody would’ve been familiar with at the time

high school literature teachers are endless fountains of nonsense about basically everything they teach

eta: i feel like i need to add that they also teach some really important skills — critical reading, argumentative writing, etc — and can be very inspiring. i really liked most of my literature teachers and am not at all trying to push some stemlord line about getting rid of the humanities. but yeah you need take anything they say with a lot of salt

akadajet posted:

I haven’t seen or thought about this for ages. I don’t remember it being very funny.

rjmccall posted:

but every english teacher seems to have a quota of ten weird hangups about the english language that they think are hard and fast rules, and they all have a ton of hot takes about the works they teach

Beeftweeter posted:

he's not wrong

kliras posted:

anything weird going on with twitter search atm?



alt text: twitter search showing query string '" test (from:undefined)"' for a simple "test" query

it insists on appending "from:undefined" for whatever reason

(i mean more than the usual)

Nessus posted:

I remembered Sinfest for having Cool Calvin as a main character and having a somewhat better art style than the average webcomic.

FilthyImp posted:

A lot of those were things that needed to be drilled into kids (as they were drilled into the teachers in HS and college) before spell check and grammarly existed.

Also, you should read up on what Literature education was like before The New Criticism became the standard.

People grow up with a weird inability to use interpretations put forth by teachers as starting points.

Spending my 20s ranting against Mr. Popovich saying that Gatsby's Green Light is a Fata Morgana

What drivel!

Expo70 posted:

minette (my favourite - it means cat more literally but it implies a particular look cats make when begging)

FilthyImp posted:

I knew someone whose teacher said that Nick had a sexual obsession with Gatsby.

Through a certain lens, though...

lord fifth posted:

this one is to my understanding not all that uncommon of an interpretation

FilthyImp posted:

I knew someone whose teacher said that Nick had a sexual obsession with Gatsby.

Through a certain lens, though...

E: aw hell, there's something funny about complaining about bullshit being taken to heart in the Muskzone

Beeftweeter posted:

"well if you change the meaning of the words to x because y", well,

FilthyImp posted:

Did you know the Weird Sisters' brew at the start of Macbeth is just apothecary talk for mustard seed and moss, among other things?

rjmccall posted:

i also have a problem with ms whoever-she-was telling me e.g. that there are no contemporary transcendentalists because she didn’t like that contemporary has two meanings and so pretended that one of them was wrong

Beeftweeter posted:

every time willy shakes uses the article "the" it means "pig balls"

Bad Purchase posted:

she was trying to prevent kids from reading works by transcendentalists, and for that she should be hailed a hero

FilthyImp posted:

I don't like it when words change meaning, so I assume "Cow-Eyed Hera" in the Greek is just shade

univbee posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1592236769772474368

univbee posted:

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1592236769772474368

Beeftweeter posted:

mamma mia!

FrozenVent posted:

I haven’t heard it in Montreal and westward.

FlapYoJacks posted:

rjmccall posted:

in case it isn’t obvious, that shakespeare sex stuff is mostly just bored english teachers making stuff up. a lot of these supposed euphemisms are, like, the word was used in a way that was suggestive in context in some obscure work that nobody would’ve been familiar with at the time

high school literature teachers are endless fountains of nonsense about basically everything they teach

eta: i feel like i need to add that they also teach some really important skills — critical reading, argumentative writing, etc — and can be very inspiring. i really liked most of my literature teachers and am not at all trying to push some stemlord line about getting rid of the humanities. but yeah you need take anything they say with a lot of salt

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

my 10th grade English teacher was a partisan of the Baconian theory (i.e. Shakespeare never lived or was just some obscure guy) and made us watch a bunch of conspiracy crap about it

Cold on a Cob posted:

Sagebrush posted:

The Quebecois dub of the chowdah/chowdaire scene has the waiter serving Freddy Quimby a plate of "lentilles" and he hoots and yells "c'est des bines maudit cave"

FlapYoJacks posted:

They mostly use figa

MononcQc posted:

Our dub of Bart stuck in France during the exchange is even better than the original one because Bart can't get understood by the loving Parisian cops who are looking down on his Quebecois accent, so at some point he just figures out how to twist words more like the French and throws in some slang and suddenly he's able to get help.

Beeftweeter posted:

no no i'm sure it's literally a goddess with bovine parts

rjmccall posted:

it is definitely dull as hell

VSOKUL girl posted:

i dont think my professor appreciated my analysis ...

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://dawnproject.com/safety-tests-reveal-that-tesla-full-self-driving-software-will-repeatedly-hit-a-child-mannequin-in-a-stroller/

wow who would have thought

MononcQc posted:

The original joke in the Simpsons got localized for Quebec's dub and they picked "la région du Lac-Saint-Jean" (instead of upstate New York), and Jonquière vs. Alma as the two small cities the expression comes from instead of Albany and Utica. It works very well as these two small cities are not major but known enough for the joke, and the region as a whole has different accents from the rest of the province.

MononcQc posted:

Our dub of Bart stuck in France during the exchange is even better than the original one because Bart can't get understood by the loving Parisian cops who are looking down on his Quebecois accent, so at some point he just figures out how to twist words more like the French and throws in some slang and suddenly he's able to get help.