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Started by themenniss, January 09, 2011, 04:09:46 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#136
January 10, 2011, 08:36:46 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 10, 2011, 08:30:30 PM
Blatant example, but it generalizes well.  If semantics were simple, people wouldn't fuck it up so much.

AND IT'S AN INVALID FUCKING EXAMPLE.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#137
January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.

The Good Reverend Roger

#138
January 10, 2011, 08:37:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.

Thanks to this thread, I am now going to go make Ken lose his shit.

FFS.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

#139
January 10, 2011, 08:38:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.


:lulz:

Whatever

#140
January 10, 2011, 08:38:13 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.

I would call that porn rule I can't remember on this but I'm pretty sure the Vatican would send someone out to kill us both......  :lulz:

Jasper

#141
January 10, 2011, 08:38:42 PM
Poor Ken.

Nephew Twiddleton

#142
January 10, 2011, 08:38:53 PM
Quote from: Niamh on January 10, 2011, 08:38:13 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.

I would call that porn rule I can't remember on this but I'm pretty sure the Vatican would send someone out to kill us both......  :lulz:

Rule 34
Strange and Terrible Organ Laminator of Yesterday's Heavy Scene
Sentence or sentence fragment pending

Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

Phox

#143
January 10, 2011, 08:39:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:34:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 10, 2011, 08:30:30 PM
Blatant example, but it generalizes well.  If semantics were simple, people wouldn't fuck it up so much.

Laziness has nothing to do with semantics.  "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse" is gramatically incorrect; it is missing the preposition "of".  Don't blame semantics for that.


Not to mention, the fact that "Jack" is capitalized indicates a proper noun, not a verb.  
Unless it is commonly understood that a certain word will be left out. This is very often the case in inflected languages. Not so much in English, though.

Adios

#144
January 10, 2011, 08:39:17 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:37:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:36:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 10, 2011, 08:35:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Thanks to this thread, I am now envisioning the son of God sodomizing his clone.

Thanks to this thread, I am now going to go make Ken lose his shit.

FFS.

well, we could always go back to word puns.......


Hawk,
runs away.

The Good Reverend Roger

#145
January 10, 2011, 08:40:08 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 10, 2011, 08:39:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:34:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 10, 2011, 08:30:30 PM
Blatant example, but it generalizes well.  If semantics were simple, people wouldn't fuck it up so much.

Laziness has nothing to do with semantics.  "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse" is gramatically incorrect; it is missing the preposition "of".  Don't blame semantics for that.


Not to mention, the fact that "Jack" is capitalized indicates a proper noun, not a verb.  
Unless it is commonly understood that a certain word will be left out. This is very often the case in inflected languages. Not so much in English, though.


We're discussing English.  The Belgians will have to look out for themselves.

Fucking phlegms.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#146
January 10, 2011, 08:41:47 PM
This whole thing brings to mind a certain sort of noob - we had one recently - that insists that language is just a convention...And that to show how outlandish they are, they're going to ignore that convention.

Stick it to the man.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#147
January 10, 2011, 08:42:31 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 10, 2011, 08:38:42 PM
Poor Ken.

You only have yourself to blame.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#148
January 10, 2011, 08:42:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on January 10, 2011, 08:39:04 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 10, 2011, 08:34:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on January 10, 2011, 08:30:30 PM
Blatant example, but it generalizes well.  If semantics were simple, people wouldn't fuck it up so much.

Laziness has nothing to do with semantics.  "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse" is gramatically incorrect; it is missing the preposition "of".  Don't blame semantics for that.


Not to mention, the fact that "Jack" is capitalized indicates a proper noun, not a verb.  
Unless it is commonly understood that a certain word will be left out. This is very often the case in inflected languages. Not so much in English, though.

"Commonly understood" is not a rule.  When the possibility of interpretive confusion arises, the sentence should be written clearly, with formal grammar.  Like I said, laziness.

Jasper

#149
January 10, 2011, 08:44:30 PM
When someone says "Get off that", I don't take them to mean I should sexually gratify whatever I'm on.  It is commonly understood.
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