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I admire his staunch, pedantic attitude for the purity of the English language. English needs him |
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i bet his parents are siblings |
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I think it's a conservative and dangerous attitude which will cause the language to become stale. |
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i expect this thread to be as large as the oink invites thread by the end of noon. that said, i have to refrain from adding a good point, as a form of "external ego management". |
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Hm, I'm not sure if that's the case - the English language is being eroded rather than evolved: not all change automatically means a step forward, and the shocking ignorance of the simplest rules of English is not progressive, it's just shocking ignorance. |
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redrum thread ! |
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I think that goes for music as well. |
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We share a passion for Joyce. |
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engagement |
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I'm not sure either but I feel this way of thinking stems from some kind of linguocentric (!) posture. Maybe not if you're talking about sheer grammatical nonsense, but for exemple : why is American English seen as a lower form of the language when they're not afraid to create new handy words or simplify the spelling of unnecessarily complex words, bringing them closer to actual pronunciation, as it should be? How is this erosion? |
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je suis un poisson? |
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no you're not |
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are you? |
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i only have a problem with it if there's already a efficient way of saying it. |
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redrum lives in Ireland. |
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he is good init. wot dem uver people sayin is rong. |
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Right. I'd tend to agree. I usually don't believe in synonyms but I'm sure you could find an exemple of a completely redundant word. But even then, I'm not sure why you'd want to fight it. If it really is an exact synonym, what's wrong with using it instead? |
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there are usually no nuances added to a phrase by bastardizing one part of speech and turning it into another. i'll get thinking about the completely redundant word. and yeah, English has plenty of synonyms, perhaps more than most languages, due to its mongrel heritage. |
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redrum is probably the the person from xltronic i would want to see the most in real. he actually even topped wMw last year. |
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His hair. His love of Zappa. |
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He buys me ice cream and provides me with a shoulder to cry on |
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c'est une possibilité |
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Synonyms are great. They add fine shades of meaning because of their origin, politeness level, syllabic rhythm, onomatopoeic implications, mouth feel and so forth. There are no bad words or phrases - only bad writers. |
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and bad readers |
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redrum is both |
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i don't have a problem with synonyms. i never said i did either. |
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Eventually you'll strip down the richness of English to one word, you tongue-fascist. BB BB BB BB |
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In addition to that, most synonyms aren't really 100% synonymous to the words they're synonymous to, if used correctly. |
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Exactly. Infant, baby, rug monkey and screaming purplefaced shit factory all point to the same class of object but with different nuances of meaning. |
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it's a sampler, a mixer and a pattern sequencer all 3 in 1!! also, it's murder backwards. |
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he's irish |
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