Last edited by uziq (2020-01-01 05:18:35)
Muslim girls don't put out. They are just taking up space if they don't.uziq wrote:
macbeth/americans, can i get a digest on what is going on in this tweet?
https://twitter.com/NewYork_Minutee/sta … 3160119296
so a muslim girl is playing basketball, seems pretty good. a successful, encouraging picture of assimilation.
but the comments are full of black people being openly racist about her religion and attire? making bomb jokes?
i thought black people knew racism was mean?
as a liberal who reads the economist i just don't know what to think anymore.
Well aware that Christianity has foreign origins and that English is derived from multiple languages.uziq wrote:
has it ever occurred to you, war man, that a lot of the world aren't american? that your religion isn't american? that for most of the history of your religion it has been followed, worshipped, celebrated, written and taught in languages that aren't american? the divinity school at harvard taught theology -- christianity -- to its students in greek and latin only 100 years ago.
so the next time someone says 'xmas', and you take it as an insult, maybe go read a fucking book instead of adopting your 'incensed redneck' persona.
and why would you use a mish-mash of languages? do you even know what modern english is? do you even know how languages work, generally? i suppose you've never met someone at a 'cafe' before? i suppose you don't listen to 'music'? a term like 'xmas' is actually a calque, where parts of the word are made from semantic borrowings from another language. here are some calques which i am sure you never, ever use:
superman
beer garden
flea market
adam's apple
who would have thought, a yung homeschooled dairy-farm boy like war man, made over into an errant young inkhorn!!!
Last edited by War Man (2020-01-04 05:56:52)
also, the second half of your disputed term, which you have continually overlooked, is '-mas'. the OLD LATIN form of 'Mass'. you are an idiot.Still, if you are simply going to use a foreign word or letter, it is not far off from deciding to mishmash words of different languages.
Last edited by uziq (2020-01-04 06:37:32)
You're not really helping break to break yourself out of that pigeon hole by getting annoyed at the word xmas. Tons of folks who share that roost get a dark look and launch into a verbal rant whenever they see it used. The kind of people who are probably part of the reason why "often offensive" is ridiculously tagged on dictionary.com. People who stereotypically fall straight into "I've listened to conservative programming exclusively since their shot in the arm by the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine, and have internalized all their drums." Is this you?War Man wrote:
Edit: By the way, nice of you to assume I am a dairy farm boy. Here's a hint, I am not. Even if I was, I find it stereotypical and elitist of you to assume such people are incapable of being intelligent.
Last edited by uziq (2020-01-04 12:50:57)
Just saying it is lazy, especially coming from an intellectual known for writing several long paragraphs in his posts here on whatever he is passionate about.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
You're not really helping break to break yourself out of that pigeon hole by getting annoyed at the word xmas. Tons of folks who share that roost get a dark look and launch into a verbal rant whenever they see it used. The kind of people who are probably part of the reason why "often offensive" is ridiculously tagged on dictionary.com. People who stereotypically fall straight into "I've listened to conservative programming exclusively since their shot in the arm by the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine, and have internalized all their drums." Is this you?War Man wrote:
Edit: By the way, nice of you to assume I am a dairy farm boy. Here's a hint, I am not. Even if I was, I find it stereotypical and elitist of you to assume such people are incapable of being intelligent.
By the way, xmas as an abbreviation is a close enough approximation (ΧX, χx). Who wants to alt code χmas every time? That kills the brevity.
And the code doesn't always work. Merry ╟mas
I guess I should start intermixing Cyrillic with Latin characters for fun, but seeing as some people can't be bothered to use the actual Greek letter and instead just use the Latin letter "x" , guess I'll just substitute Latin letters for the Cyrillic letters. Like having Bepa instead of Vera.uziq wrote:
'xmas' is not only more convenient, but it combines greek and latin, the two original languages of the bible as we know it in the west, rather than some weird transliteration. 'christmas' is like the equivalent of japanese romanji. which makes sense as i am quite sure that war man is the kind of kid who would leave a dairy farm for college and bounce straight into hentai and being a weeb.
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Hows that retirement condo working out for you?Steve-0 wrote:
wow, it's like old home week in here. . .
How is that lazy though? He saved five characters out of a single sentence.War Man wrote:
Just saying it is lazy, especially coming from an intellectual known for writing several long paragraphs in his posts here on whatever he is passionate about.
Lazy of you to type "I'll" instead of "I will."guess I'll just
