Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler. IKR? 4 'SHO! GTFOH! LOL! KTHXBAI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Well see that is convoluted too, just in the opposite direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Take the joke or go home! *points toward door* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I know, I just wanted to point that out. Read my upcoming essay "There, Their and They're: One Of You Has Got To Go" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler. FIGURATIVELY is right there! It loves you and wants to have (figuratively) 10,000 of your babies, America. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 English seems like a game set up by a really shitty Dungeon Master. He does not want you to have a great adventure, he just wants you to die fast. Preferably on an inane technicality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 They've been fighting about this forever: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2012/05/steven_pinker_on_the_false_fronts_in_the_language_wars_.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 And I always test well on this shit. But once I jumped thru the schools hoops, I saw it as useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 FULL DISCLOSURE: I just really don't like the fact that my best friend, whose rampant misuse of the word should be a federal crime, gets to claim victory retroactively. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Spoiler warning: Improper slang use always wins out over the language purists. This debate is centuries old in English, and the end results are always in favor of common usage over proper usage. So, this will literally be the way it is going forward, and in a few decades, or maybe a century, nobody will even know it was wrong once. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 Literally has been used as an intensifier since at least the mid 1800s, so I don't understand why people are just now hopping onto this bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Fuck insomnia. I've been having some of the worst bouts with it I've ever had the last couple weeks. What I wouldn't do for a solid night's rest right about now. Like I'm not cranky enough when I've actually had sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler. It's simpler for a word to have two exact opposite meanings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Seems to work for everyone but the grammar queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler. That's true, but this particular change is pretty lame. Next, they'll allow "libary" and "Wensday." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 The trick is to remember is Wed your NES Day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Fuck you, new version of Firefox disabling the ability to turn Java on/off at one click, and the ability to turn off loading all images at one click. Good job killing your single best features. God bless this add on, but still I shouldn't need to grab it. Removing good stuff for no reason. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickjava/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Big fuck you to American Airlines, who cancelled my flight home twenty minutes prior to boarding, on my girlfriends birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Fuck you to yesterday seeing how my Mum was in hospital. A right shitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Natural, I am very sorry to hear about your mother. I can't imagine having had to watch my own late mother waste away. You are a good man. So please stay strong, Do whatever gives you comfort. Parents are stronger than we give them credit for. My thoughts are with you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Natural, I am very sorry to hear about your mother. I can't imagine having had to watch my own late mother waste away. You are a good man. So please stay strong, Do whatever gives you comfort. Parents are stronger than we give them credit for. My thoughts are with you. Thank you and I'm sorry about your Mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I can only imagine how hard this must be for you, Natural. Take care of yourself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 If you need to talk to someone, please contact me. I'm always happy to listen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Thanks, guys. Ran out of likes but I'll like your posts when I have them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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