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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 6:04:07 AM

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. And what do I get? Abuse! Being a sensitive, needy sort of bloke, lacking in self-confidence, I'll now have to crawl away and have a little cry.

Oh cruel world.

hugs and cuddles Mr SD.... there there...

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 6:04:15 AM

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It would be interesting to do some kind of vocabulary analysis on you and a hoodie, and see how many different words either of you actually use in a day. My money's not necessarily on you having the wider range.

Oh VC!

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 6:11:26 AM

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. And what do I get? Abuse! Being a sensitive, needy sort of bloke, lacking in self-confidence, I'll now have to crawl away and have a little cry.

Oh cruel world.

hugs and cuddles Mr SD.... there there...

Oh dc <sobs> thank you <sobs> I'm so misunderstood <sobs> is the scary girl still there? <sobs, with his head buried in dc's shoulder, not daring to look>

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 6:15:47 AM

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Oh dc <sobs> thank you <sobs> I'm so misunderstood <sobs> is the scary girl still there? <sobs, with his head buried in dc's shoulder, not daring to look>

ummm...*coughs*.... Mr SD.... that's not my shoulder... careful you might suffocate

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 6:41:35 AM

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Good example, the word apocalypse, is from the Greek word apocalypsis, which means 'to reveal'. Until the bible this word had no connection at all with armageddon or end of days. That's why religious fundamentalists scare me, because they don't take into account the evolution of words.

A little more detail, which might help some readers: "Apocalypse" is synonymous with "Revelation"; they are both the TITLE of the last book of the Christian version of the Bible. Apocalypse is the English (anglicized) version of the original Greek title of the book. "Revelation" comes from the Latin translation (Revelatio = "the revealing") of the name.

The battle of Armageddon (which is the name of a place) and the end of the world (among other things) are topics of the book. Eventually, uneducated people got confused between the original name of the book, and its most attention-getting topics, and gave the word the new meaning of "end of the world". In one sense, it now is a meaning of the word. In another sense, it's still wrong, wrong, wrong. ;-) Apocalypsis still means revelatio, and they both mean "revealing".

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 7:49:09 AM

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EATA: also also, I used the term 'control-freakery'. That is not a word. What more do you want from me?!?

I'm not talking to you anymore. You're common.

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 8:02:10 AM

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ummm...*coughs*.... Mr SD.... that's not my shoulder... careful you might suffocate....

Yes. I think we all know it wasn't your shoulder in which my head was buried dc.

Allow a man some pleasure in life.

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 8:18:18 AM

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No - I do not find grammar as important as all that.

So what makes your posts so generally readable? Surely not the ideas behind them!

[For some US readers - that's not really sarcasm, it's what we Brits indulge in so often - ironical smiling - which sometimes seems to confuse some of you. For the avoidance of doubt, the above is actually a very warm huggy compliment to dc.]

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 8:30:55 AM

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No - I do not find grammar as important as all that.

So what makes your posts so generally readable? Surely not the ideas behind them!

[For some US readers - that's not really sarcasm, it's what we Brits indulge in so often - ironical smiling - which sometimes seems to confuse some of you. For the avoidance of doubt, the above is actually a very warm huggy compliment to dc.]

Huggable Mr SD...

Maybe I'm not so readable to some people? I know that for me, you didn't have to put the disclaimer that you jsust did, but felt the need to because maybe you feel that some people might not understand the way you type... because they don't know you - for example - not just because of grammar.

Sometimes it's our perceptions and stereotypes that limit us (generic) because we jump into auto and use them instead of learning more about the person/individual.

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 8:53:11 AM

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that may be, dc.. I have no trouble reading you, either, so it may well be the knowing that makes the difference.

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 10:37:45 AM

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Hi GT :)

Want a very warm huggy compliment?

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/9/2011 11:32:52 AM

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from you, always, SD *smooch*

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RE: Correct use of language - 2/12/2011 10:52:54 AM

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Now look. It's simply impossible that my skilled use of language has been capable of mis-interpretation. Clearly it's your fault.

What I meant was that your tube example is great - it shows a vibrant example of new language (a growth which is firmly not my beef) and - my implicit point - didn't contain a single "innit" (I listened). My example was intended to illustrate my original whinge - that some people (ok so I lazily used a stereotype of hoodies) don't make the effort to learn or use a richer vocabulary.

So my post was - effectively - suggesting that you are wonderfully right and should, in a better world, be placed on a pedestal. And what do I get? Abuse! Being a sensitive, needy sort of bloke, lacking in self-confidence, I'll now have to crawl away and have a little cry.

Oh cruel world.

Heh. Sorry.

My bad.

But I contest your claim that some people don't make the effort - slang only gets to be slang rather than gibberish because people use it. It would be interesting to do some kind of vocabulary analysis on you and a hoodie, and see how many different words either of you actually use in a day. My money's not necessarily on you having the wider range.