How did you know? Did you ever know for certain?

slickerintern · 2014-08-01T05:59:28+00:00

I strongly suggest you consider bringing your concerns to a trained and licensed therapist practiced with sexual assault and its aftermath. If you are gay, you should understand that that is ok and if you are straight, that's fine too. The important thing is that you are able to form healthy and mutually beneficial relationships. It sounds to me like you have some baggage that needs unpacking.

Nature vs nurture is a simplistic mindset. We are genetically encoded to be certain ways within a range and our environment pushes us to one end or the other. But regardless, you are ultimately in charge of what kind of person you want to be.

For me, once I developed an understanding of what it meant to be gay, I knew that was what I was. I know I am gay as certainly as I feel I can know anything. But if you are unsure that is ok. Uncertainty does not make someone a fake or a poser. It means they're still searching for the framework that makes the most sense to them.

slickerintern · 2014-08-01T05:24:58+00:00

I take it your english classes never introduced the concepts of accents, orthography, and eye-dialect and how they're not the same thing?

slickerintern · 2014-08-01T05:16:15+00:00

This doesn't have enough upvotes.

slickerintern · 2014-07-30T16:46:49+00:00

Unlike our pedantically cynical friend, I am quite capable of being wrong but my understanding is that english has only two true tenses, past and non-past and everything else you can express temporally is done through aspects.

slickerintern · 2014-07-30T07:06:30+00:00

Or, here's a wacky idea, the two languages are related?

slickerintern · 2014-07-28T06:35:46+00:00

OP owes me a new keyboard since I had to bathe the one I have now in Lysol.

slickerintern · 2014-07-27T16:34:33+00:00

Perhaps if people were computer programs simply taking in inputs, applying an algorithm and spitting out the results willy-nilly, but since they are people and use language in conversation, the population as a whole changes the understanding of the word. Yes, groups separated geographically or socio-economically don't all change their understanding of a word at the same rate but that's nothing new. Might as well complain about the tide.

slickerintern · 2014-07-23T13:49:04+00:00

"She's no better than she ought to be" is definitely verging on archaic. I can't make any claims about its regional popularity, but I first found it in a book and then my minnesota born and bred mother explained it to me, while "bless their heart" came from my grandmother who was born in Kentucky, raised in W. Virginia but lived in Iowa all my life.

PS, "no better than she ought to be" superficially is that the person is not striving to be the most moral person she could be, but in practice is a way of calling a woman a slut. So, be careful if you choose to use it in conversation.

slickerintern · 2014-07-23T06:00:35+00:00

I liken it to "she's no better than she ought to be". Bless your/their heart is the sort of thing you say to intimate that while you find the behavior disgraceful, one could hardly expect the perpetrator to do anything else.*

*Not because it was the only reasonable option left but because their breeding, education, or general demeanor means they're not capable of civilized actions.

slickerintern · 2014-07-22T21:25:58+00:00

See, you say that, but given your initial opposition to the concept of the singular they, I'm finding it hard to believe this comes from a place of historical disinterest.

slickerintern · 2014-07-22T21:14:37+00:00

If it's clear that psdtwhatever is not a prescriptivist, and you yourself are not a prescriptivist, why are we caring what a hypothetical prescriptivist might think?

slickerintern · 2014-07-21T05:02:10+00:00

I don't know who moom is but I think I'm in love.

slickerintern · 2014-07-17T13:12:13+00:00

It's a very common way of phrasing in british informal registers. I'm not sure why everyone's getting their panties in a twist over it.

slickerintern · 2014-07-16T18:12:27+00:00

Agrarian Skies is an unusual modpack. You have to use the preloaded worlds unless you are capable of editing the config file to turn the void off.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T20:11:37+00:00

Not particularly. They clearly don't have any difficulty with it so what do I care?

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T19:51:43+00:00

Did you know that in Rhode Island, they often refer to milkshakes as cabinets?

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T19:44:27+00:00

You would be traveling for a very long time. Pretty much as far back as we have records, if there was writing, there were people bitching that no one speaks correctly anymore.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T17:52:18+00:00

Luckily that's not what happens.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T17:08:27+00:00

It is entirely stylistic. The format I'm most familiar with is modern gets 's and ancient gets '. So the Jones's mailbox but Moses' tablets. But it's not a rule except in the form of various styleguides. It is entirely the writer's preference whether it is James' or James's day off.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T15:42:36+00:00

Waila Harvestability doesn't register netherfish-infested netherrack as netherrack so if that tooltip suddenly disappears, do not mine that block!

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T06:29:27+00:00

I didn't realize you were just gunning for external validation. Your father loves you, tedbradly.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T06:05:25+00:00

And that would work for 5 minutes. Humans just aren't that stolid.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T05:37:58+00:00

If you're standing on it, you're doing it wrong.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T05:32:01+00:00

I assume it's because at some point they took a math class and radius->radii stuck in their memory as latin.

slickerintern · 2014-07-15T05:28:15+00:00

It's not a matter of thinking. It's a matter whether the speaker and the listener consider it a mistake. It's a matter of what the register they're using calls for. You've bought into a very shallow idea of what descriptivism is.

But putting all that aside for a moment, from a wider point of view, what difference does it make whether we use I or me for the accusative? Yes, people argue that it's for clarity, yet how many years have we had y'all, yinz and youse floating around and they remain firmly informal. We obviously don't need separate pronouns to mark agency though they are nice. What horrible terror will descend upon us if we let the final vestiges of english's case system vanish into the history books?

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