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Started by jimmy olsen, August 20, 2009, 07:34:01 AM

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Darth Wagtaros

#15
August 20, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 20, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
That is nonsense Wags. The English language is changing, being used in new ways, but its hardly being butchered anymore than our generation "butchered" it, or our parents. It just changes over time, adapts to new usage.


Being unable to spell basic shit or use proper grammar for an exam or college entry essay is kinda pathetic.
PDH!

Neil

#16
August 20, 2009, 07:02:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 20, 2009, 07:52:25 AM
I hate nerds.
I hate unoriginal nerds.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

jimmy olsen

#17
August 20, 2009, 07:03:47 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 20, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
That is nonsense Wags. The English language is changing, being used in new ways, but its hardly being butchered anymore than our generation "butchered" it, or our parents. It just changes over time, adapts to new usage.


Being unable to spell basic shit or use proper grammar for an exam or college entry essay is kinda pathetic.

Anyone reading books like this aren't the kids having trouble in English class.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Darth Wagtaros

#18
August 20, 2009, 07:23:54 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 20, 2009, 07:03:47 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 20, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
That is nonsense Wags. The English language is changing, being used in new ways, but its hardly being butchered anymore than our generation "butchered" it, or our parents. It just changes over time, adapts to new usage.


Being unable to spell basic shit or use proper grammar for an exam or college entry essay is kinda pathetic.

Anyone reading books like this aren't the kids having trouble in English class.
I think that is true only because the kids having trouble in English class can't read.
PDH!

Neil

#19
August 20, 2009, 07:31:20 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 20, 2009, 07:03:47 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 20, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
That is nonsense Wags. The English language is changing, being used in new ways, but its hardly being butchered anymore than our generation "butchered" it, or our parents. It just changes over time, adapts to new usage.


Being unable to spell basic shit or use proper grammar for an exam or college entry essay is kinda pathetic.

Anyone reading books like this aren't the kids having trouble in English class.
You'd read a book like this.  So would Spellus.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

jimmy olsen

#20
August 20, 2009, 07:45:24 PM
Quote from: Neil on August 20, 2009, 07:31:20 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 20, 2009, 07:03:47 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 06:40:16 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 20, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
That is nonsense Wags. The English language is changing, being used in new ways, but its hardly being butchered anymore than our generation "butchered" it, or our parents. It just changes over time, adapts to new usage.


Being unable to spell basic shit or use proper grammar for an exam or college entry essay is kinda pathetic.

Anyone reading books like this aren't the kids having trouble in English class.
You'd read a book like this.  So would Spellus.
I got straight As in English.

Hell, I'll be teaching English this October.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Neil

#21
August 20, 2009, 07:51:13 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 20, 2009, 07:45:24 PM
I got straight As in English.

Hell, I'll be teaching English this October.
And what does this demonstrate?  The American education system is a laughing stock.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Darth Wagtaros

#22
August 20, 2009, 08:26:50 PM
Just what is a laughing stock? Its a curious turn of phrase.
PDH!

Razgovory

#23
August 21, 2009, 06:47:53 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 20, 2009, 07:52:25 AM
I hate nerds.

You picked up the worst fucking hobbies then.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#24
August 21, 2009, 07:58:12 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 08:26:50 PM
Just what is a laughing stock? Its a curious turn of phrase.
Maybe people got put in stocks and then got laughed at?

Razgovory

#25
August 21, 2009, 09:07:25 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 21, 2009, 07:58:12 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 08:26:50 PM
Just what is a laughing stock? Its a curious turn of phrase.
Maybe people got put in stocks and then got laughed at?

Live stock raised for comedic purposes.  Like a Booby farm.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Malthus

#26
August 21, 2009, 11:12:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 21, 2009, 07:58:12 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 20, 2009, 08:26:50 PM
Just what is a laughing stock? Its a curious turn of phrase.
Maybe people got put in stocks and then got laughed at?

I have heard that both derive from the original meaning of stock as "something that things can be fixed to", like a butt or stump. So, 'laughing-stock' is similar to 'the butt of the joke'.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Brain

#27
August 21, 2009, 11:33:14 PM
What is a joke?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Admiral Yi

#29
August 22, 2009, 01:22:39 AM
Quote from: Malthus on August 21, 2009, 11:12:59 PM
I have heard that both derive from the original meaning of stock as "something that things can be fixed to", like a butt or stump. So, 'laughing-stock' is similar to 'the butt of the joke'.
Yeah, so why is someone the butt of a joke? :huh:
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