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| Totally not politically correct....; don't open if you might be offended | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 1 2008, 06:26 PM (2,475 Views) | |
| Daniel | Jan 6 2008, 01:47 PM Post #126 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I want to hear more about "the human person". |
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 6 2008, 01:47 PM Post #127 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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I must have missed that in my copy of the Bible. Which version are you reading? The King Corleone version? |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 6 2008, 01:48 PM Post #128 |
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Cheers
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| apple | Jan 6 2008, 01:52 PM Post #129 |
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one of the angels
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deophilic what a word.... surely you did not come up with that yourself! |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 6 2008, 01:54 PM Post #130 |
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Cheers
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I did, in fact. |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 6 2008, 01:56 PM Post #131 |
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MAMIL
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Jon completely made up a word and nobody was willing to admit they didn't have a clue what he was talking about. |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 6 2008, 02:02 PM Post #132 |
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Cheers
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IT got it, he even recognized it was made up (incorrectly). |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 6 2008, 02:06 PM Post #133 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Tell me Quirt that you had no idea of how those words went together and what was being communicated. I learned all about grammar in third grade. They don't make much sense to you? Wow. I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering he thinks the entire field of psychology is only about 100 years old. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| TomK | Jan 6 2008, 02:09 PM Post #134 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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IT lay off Quirt. I think it's been agreed all around that he hasn't gotten "any" in a while.
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 6 2008, 02:17 PM Post #135 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Like I said, Tom, it depends on what "any" is. Some "any" I have gotten ... some "any" I have not. If the "any" is good Indian food, yeah, I haven't had "any" in a while. If the "any" is amusement from anything you've written, I didn't get "any of that recently either. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| TomK | Jan 6 2008, 02:20 PM Post #136 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yup--Quirt hasn't gotten "any." That last post would be confirmation. :lol: |
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| kathyk | Jan 6 2008, 02:54 PM Post #137 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Glad to see the link wasn't wasted. I almost started a link for it, but thought better of it. ![]() Jon, not to analyze this to death, but, the edited example you give actually makes a good point aside from the facetious exaggeration.
If you simply replaced the F word with "slept with" I personally think it would have been just as funny without being quite so in-your-face. |
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| Axtremus | Jan 6 2008, 04:44 PM Post #138 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Exactly, these words don't make sense to me in conjunction. That's why I asked. Thanks, Quirt. ![]() (FWIW, I followed up here: http://z10.invisionfree.com/The_New_Coffee...dpost&p=2258291 ) |
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| TomK | Jan 6 2008, 04:47 PM Post #139 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Now Ax doesn't sound like he isn't getting "any." Aren't you a newlywed, Ax? ![]() Maybe we should do a poll on who isn't getting "any?" |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 6 2008, 04:50 PM Post #140 |
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MAMIL
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Oh for God's sake. I'll put this to rest for good: Emotionally truncated: An elephant that's had a bit too much to drink. Relationally impaired: His friend the monkey's uncle who's been flagged down on a DUI. Is that clear enough for you, Ax? |
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| Axtremus | Jan 6 2008, 09:13 PM Post #141 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Thanks for the effort, but ...
No, unfortunately. ![]() On a completely unrelated note, "knobhead" is good.
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| Jeffrey | Jan 6 2008, 09:43 PM Post #142 |
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Senior Carp
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IT: "You are mixing Greek and Latin." The word you are looking for is "macaronic", as in "macaronic neologism". With satiric or mocking intent, it is sometimes ok to mix Greek and Latin roots, though not usually. jon's basic point is correct - the people here protesting the loudest are the same ones to get upset at "political correctness" in other cases (gays, blacks, etc). |
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| Daniel | Jan 6 2008, 09:53 PM Post #143 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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TMI! ![]() |
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| greg | Jan 6 2008, 10:02 PM Post #144 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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I thought macaronic meant "of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by macaroni".
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| Jeffrey | Jan 6 2008, 10:12 PM Post #145 |
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Senior Carp
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greg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_Latin Excerpt: "Macaronic refers to text spoken or written using a mixture of languages, sometimes including bilingual puns, particularly when the languages are used in the same context (as opposed to different segments of a text being in different languages). The term is occasionally used of hybrid words, which are in effect internally macaronic. Macaronic prose, and macaronic poetry in particular, are more often than not used to create a humorous effect. Whether literature of a more serious nature and purpose should be classified or not as 'macaronic' is subject to debate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word "A hybrid word is a word which etymologically has one part derived from one language and another part derived from a different language. [edit]Common hybrids The most common form of hybrid word in English is one which combines etymologically Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word. Such etymologically-disparate mixing is considered by some to be bad form. Others, however, argue that, since both (or all) parts already exist in the English lexicon, such mixing is merely the conflation of two (or more) English morphemes in order to create an English neologism (new word), and so is appropriate. [edit]Examples: Automobile - a wheeled passenger vehicle, from Greek άυτο~ (auto) "self~" and Latin mobilis "moveable" Biathlon - Bigamy - from the Latin bis meaning "twice" and the Greek γαμος (gamos) Bioluminescence - from the Greek βιος (bios) "living" and the Latin lumen "light" Dysfunction - from the Greek (dus) meaning "bad" and the Latin functio Electrocution — a portmanteau of electricity, from the Greek ἤλεκτρον (ēlektron), "amber", and execution, from the Latin exsequere, "follow out" Hexadecimal - from the Greek (hex) meaning "six" and the Latin decimus meaning "tenth" Homosexual — from the Greek ὁμός (homos) meaning "same" and the Latin sexus meaning "gender" (This example is remarked on in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, with A. E. Housman's character saying "Homosexuality? What barbarity! It's half Greek and half Latin!".) Hyperactive — from the Greek ὑπέρ (hyper) meaning "over" and the Latin activus Hypercomplex Hypercorrection - from the Greek (hyper) meaning "over" and the Latin correctio Hyperextension - from the Greek (hyper) meaning "over" and the Latin extensio meaning "stretching out" Hypervisor - from the Greek (hyper) meaning "over" and the Latin visor meaning "seer"; the non-hybrid word is supervisor Liposuction - from the Greek (lipos) meaning "fat" and the Latin suctio meaning "sucking" Macroinstruction - from the Greek μακρος (makros) meaning "long" and the Latin instructio Mega-annum — from the Greek μέγας (megas), "large", and the Latin annum, "year" Metadata - from the Greek (meta) and the Latin data meaning "given" Microvitum - from the Greek μικρος (mikros) meaning "small" and the pseudo-Latin vitum Monoculture - from the Greek μόνος (monos) and the Latin cultura Monolingual — from the Greek μόνος (monos) meaning "one" and the Latin lingua meaning "tongue"; the non-hybrid word is unilingual Mormon — It was alleged by Joseph Smith[citation needed] that Mormon comes from the English "more" and the Reformed Egyptian mon meaning "good". Neonate — from the Greek νέος (neos), "new", and the Latin natus, "birth" Neuroscience - from the Greek neuron, meaning "sinew," and the Latin "sciens," meaning "having knowledge." Neurotransmitter - from the Greek neuron, meaning "sinew," and the Latin, trans meaning "across" and mittere meaning "to send." Nonagon - from the Latin nonus meaning "ninth" and the Greek γωνον (gonon) meaning "angle"; the non-hybrid word is enneagon Pandeism — from the Greek πάν (pan) meaning "all" and Latin deus meaning "God" Periglacial - from the Greek (peri) and the Latin glacialis Polyamory — from the Greek πολύς (polys) meaning "many" and the Latin amor meaning "love" Polydeism — from the Greek πολύς (polys) meaning "many" and the Latin deus meaning "God" Quadraphonic - from the Latin quattuor meaning four and the Greek (-phonikos); the non-hybrid word is tetraphonic Quadriplegia - from the Latin quattuor meaning four and the Greek (-plegia); the non-hybrid word is tetraplegia Sociology — from the Latin socius, "comrade", and the Greek λόγος (logos) meaning "word", "reason", "discourse" Sociopath - from the Latin socius from socire meaning "to associate with," and the Greek (-pathes) meaning "sufferer" from pathos meaning "incident," "suffering," or "experience." Television — from the Greek τῆλε (tēle) meaning "far" and the Latin videre meaning "to see" Tonsillectomy - from the Latin tonsillae and the Greek (ektomia)" |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 7 2008, 11:16 AM Post #146 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I assure you, Jeff, that is not the word I was looking for. You seem entirely confused about the criticism of political correctness. No one I know who is opposed to political correctness is in favor of mocking any group of people. It is a very civil idea to minimize offense to all people and to treat them with respect. That has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with healthy relational interactions. People who intentionally give offense are rude. The whole notion of PC is just some attempt to recover civility against the general loss of moral norms in a subjectivist/relativistic morality perpetuated since the Enlightenment. Not a bad thing in its intention, but a poor substitute and a rhetorical club in lieu of true respect. |
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| Moonbat | Jan 7 2008, 01:35 PM Post #147 |
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Pisa-Carp
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All concepts should be open to analysis none should be closed off, satire is a powerfull weapon against the concept of blasphemy (whatever the topic may be, religious, political, ideological, scientific, anything). Indeed i think an irreverence for ideas should be cultivated, it is a necessary for the ability to critically analyse. Those ideas with basis, with some coherent defense will easily survive. |
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| TomK | Jan 7 2008, 02:34 PM Post #148 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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With all due respect Moon--that's not the way you view science. If one were to take science as on of MANY ways of looking at the universe--all equally valid or invalid==you seem to have a problem. All ways of viewing the universe--may be valid, why not? |
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| Moonbat | Jan 7 2008, 03:26 PM Post #149 |
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I am not claiming that all ideas are equal. Certainly with respect to how true an idea is i reject the idea of relativism entirely: The view that the stars are small lights embedded in a crystal sphere is not as valid as the idea that the stars as suns similar to our own but that are light years away. The claim that there lots of different ways of "knowing" that are all equally valid is vacuous mumbo jumbo! Rather what i claim is that all ideas should be open to scrutiny, no concept or claims about the world should be immune to critical analysis. There should be no reverence for ideas for all that achieves is that it shields the revered concepts from critical thought, from objective evaluation. |
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| TomK | Jan 7 2008, 03:37 PM Post #150 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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But all this could be in our mind. Surely, you see the validity in that? |
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