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Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


Team America: Language Police

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Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


KakerMix posted:

Automotive Insanity isn't the USA but it sure as poo poo isn't Australia or England or whatever other country you want to derive your e-culture from.

It's not the USA, but every loving time all over the net it's the loving americans who get offended at other countries doing something they don't understand and then crusading to uplift the ignorant savages so they conform to american standards, as american standards are the only possible normal baseline of what's acceptable, and if you don't accept this you're wrong and bad and a misogynist and probably use the metric system.

Real tiresome to constantly have americans telling me I'm in the wrong for how I spell colour, or talking about christmas in summer, or that I hate all women because I said I had a oval office of a day.

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


The world: It's an international community which means some things are gonna be different from my home, and that's cool

America: IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SO STOP DOING THINGS THAT ARE WRONG IN MY COUNTRY

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


Krakkles posted:

And before you say it (again), no, having a black female friend doesn’t suddenly make it ok to say the n-word c-word.


Olympic Mathlete posted:

US: "that's impossible because that's all we use it for"

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


Krakkles posted:

Misogyny and oppression through language aren’t unique to the US.

That's the root of the problem, right there. The language. In English, the word has no issues. When speaking in the American-English subdialect it becomes a horrible misogynistic attack on all women, which is an interesting study. Can we get a filter so if someone is using American-English it will filter out the word to something amusing? The rest of the world can use it with no problems, after all.

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