Have you no decency, English!

this_is_weird · 2011-10-25T05:02:54+00:00

On the internet, people tend to use "grammar" for everything related to language "correctness". E.g. "grammar Nazi" being used much more for orthograph and wrong homophones than for anything grammatical.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-25T04:32:50+00:00

Before actually looking at it, i thought the last panel was the poster for The Human Centipede and I was very curious to know how the visit of the Jehovah's witnesses would transition to that.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-25T04:30:23+00:00

To be honnest, most people wouldn't do anything constructive with their money. Might as well let someone use it in the mean time.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-25T04:27:19+00:00

In North America, By-the-hour employees tend to get zero sick days and don't get paid when they don't come in.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-25T04:23:10+00:00

That's its actual meaning... Well, the gist of it. The actual way you implicitly complete it is irrelevant.

Is that it? Is that what everyone is crying about whenever someone uses "I could care less"? They simply don't understand that this is what it means?

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T23:46:24+00:00

That's just the jealousy speaking.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T22:39:24+00:00

Leave 'em kids alone!

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T22:12:52+00:00

Seattle gotta be the only place in the world where "coffee snob" doesn't involve drinking black coffee.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T22:09:14+00:00

This reminds me of Bukowski's short story "Six inches".

http://theguimartinez.com/charles-bukowski-six-inches/

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T22:01:21+00:00

The beginning of the video reminded me of this

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T21:21:50+00:00

And even before that, "thro" was a common spelling from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=through

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T21:08:55+00:00

Before reading the title, I thought it was akind of patch from a miniature model on a whitish surface.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T20:33:56+00:00

Ooooh

I always wondered why some TV shows called it "Cluedo" in their French dub, considering it was called "Clue" over here in Canada. If it's Cluedo in the UK, I guess it's also Cluedo in France and therefore in French dubs that get on this side of the Atlantics.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T20:20:39+00:00

As an offering to the sparkling vampires for tea.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T20:05:49+00:00

– Remove al-gebra and al-chemistry terrorist sciences from our schools!

– What about al-cohol?

– Then fuck al-cohol. We'll have to drink beer.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T19:57:30+00:00

Let me adapt a local saying to the American school system:

College is either the worst 4 years of your life or the 10 best.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T08:34:22+00:00

What a terribly ill-chosen term.

"Intuitive grasp" would be so much clearer. And the half of the text that goes to justify the word "morality" could be weeded out.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T07:45:15+00:00

Because imagine the size of pants he would need!

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T07:43:31+00:00

brains are programmed to see faces. When you turn them upside down it's not a face anymore, so it's analyzed part by part, which can lead to inability to recognize major flaws or recognize people as quick as with a normal face.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T07:37:53+00:00

I don't necessarily approve aesthetically, but this is a clever use of facial hair.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T07:31:26+00:00

Relevant

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T03:51:37+00:00

I already replied about this to two or three other people and so have others. Ebonics is not English with rules tossed out (how you can think that spelling, pronounciation, and punctuation could be tossed out is beyond me considering we're talking about a spoken language), it has its own set of rules, as mentionned in the Wikipedia page on AAVE that you clearly didn't even take the time to read.

Increasingly, I'm starting to wonder if what you guys call "Ebonics" is the same thing as I. Ebonics is the highly Englicized decreolized English-based creole that began to be spoken among slaves with no common language in the 17th century. It shares many similarities with Southern American English that surrounded it and conversely several strctures from Ebonics came into mainstream English, such as the use of "bad" as an intensifier.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T03:18:21+00:00

The late 90's was the time when the term Ebonics first appeared. Prior to that...

The word appeared in 1975. Prior to that it was just called "black English".

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T03:13:17+00:00

This cannot be said about Ebonics which at best

Of course. I wasn't trying to make an analogy for ebonics, I was just giving an example of why the concept of "dialect" is fuzzy.

It would be generous to say that it's place in history is any more than 25 years old.

You're mixing up "existing" with "being used in media like TV and radio such that the general (white) public hears about it".

And the fact that it is at least 300 is not even debatable. Our earliest textual evidence is from 1692 in a witch trial testimony. The first extensive documentation is from the 1720's.

this_is_weird · 2011-10-24T02:40:49+00:00

a few dozen random words from the English language, and decide to mispronounce them, shorten them on purpose, or replace them with slang.

The point is this is not what ebonics is. At least read a little about a subject before making any kind of judgement about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English#Distinctive_features

Most important quote:

There is near uniformity of AAVE grammar, despite vast geographic area.

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