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What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

Started by Caliga, November 07, 2020, 12:07:22 PM

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Syt

Quote from: Habbaku on August 27, 2021, 02:45:05 PM
Very on-brand for the overgrown teenager that he is, but I am also open to the idea that his injuries have harmed his handwriting.

Yeah, that could well be.
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Syt

Also, does nobody write cursive anymore :weep:
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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Sheilbh

Quote from: Syt on August 27, 2021, 02:47:53 PM
Also, does nobody write cursive anymore :weep:
That's joined up writing, right?
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Syt

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Quote from: Habbaku on August 27, 2021, 02:45:05 PM
Very on-brand for the overgrown teenager that he is, but I am also open to the idea that his injuries have harmed his handwriting.

Party pooper. :P
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Habbaku

Dude's already a fucking clueless Nazi. No reason to hammer him over things he can't help.  :sleep:
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Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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Solmyr

My handwriting looks like that too. :ph34r: It's been years since I've needed to write anything more than a few words by hand.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Barrister on August 24, 2021, 11:50:58 PM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on August 24, 2021, 11:34:14 AM
I think Hispanic is more accepted simply because it was the term the government and census came up with first, before Latino became more en vogue. Latino was needed because the logic behind the term "Hispanic" was that this was a Spanish language population, but many of these people when they hit 2nd generation, are fully bilingual with maybe a slight preference for English, and many third generation only speak limited Spanish at all. But we still want to "capture" them because they have last names like Martinez and often their skin is a little too far in the color wheel for us to be comfortable with so they must have some sort of label so we can correctly identify what sort of minority they are.

Okay, so I'm probably biased because of my experience with A: a Brazillian sister-in-law, and B: having two exchange students from Spain stay with us.

But I thought the problem with "Hispanic" is that it would cover my two spanish exchange students, but exclude my Portuguese-speaking sister-in-law, when that's not really what was intended in either case.  As such "Latino" meant "someone from Latin America", which was the term we were looking for.

Ibero-American is what you are looking for. Latin America includes Haiti and Québec as well.  :P
Hispanic used to have the sense of Iberian in French, but given all US series some people don't even make the connection to Spain anymore, so Portugal is even a tougher proposition.

Jacob

This is the first time I've heard Quebec described as Latin-American. I wonder how our Quebecois posters feel about that designation?

Duque de Bragança

#2264
Because French is a Latin or Romance language.

Quebeckers are not Hispanics or Ibero-American, obviously.

But yes, it's mostly tongue-in-cheek these days, and not common at all.

PS: a case could be made for Italian-speakers as Latin Americans in North America as well. Not just those with roots in Latium.  :P