# Hostile Dialect; A Word, Please. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375 "2008-08-27T01:53:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/241 "2008-08-28T01:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] You’re here all day already, aren’t you? 😃 [/QUOTE] Ankle monitor will do that to ya. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/242 "2008-08-28T01:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] You’re here all day already, aren’t you? 😃 . [/QUOTE] try the veal. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/243 "2008-08-28T01:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] If I Googled every word where I saw someone replace an “i” with a “y” to be cutesy, I’d be here all day, wouldn’t I? [/QUOTE] How dare you talk about my parents that way you _fuck_. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/244 "2008-08-28T01:59:02Z")
[QUOTE=TVeblen] People can do whatever the hell they want as long they don’t harm others or\*\* clog traffic in passing lanes\*\*. [/QUOTE] That’s one of the neatest updates on an antiquated expression I’ve seen; did you create it? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/245 "2008-08-28T02:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] How dare you talk about my parents that way you _fuck_. [/QUOTE] You know, I just got done reading through the 1000-some pages of a very funny webcomic. I came over to this thread afterward, and already I’m laughing harder than at any point during the comic. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/246 "2008-08-28T02:11:35Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Yes, not knowing a specific 18th century poem when I don’t even like poetry in the first place makes me incredibly stupid. Thank you for pointing that out. [/QUOTE] No, not knowing one of the most famous poems in the English language doesn’t _make_ you incredibly stupid. It’s a _byproduct_ of you being incredibly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/247 "2008-08-28T02:12:22Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] How dare you talk about my parents that way you _fuck_. [/QUOTE] I admit it. This made me laugh. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/248 "2008-08-28T03:04:30Z")
> [@neutron star](#): > > Yes, not knowing a specific 18th century poem when I don’t even like poetry in the first place makes me incredibly stupid. I’m shocked–_shocked_–that an intellectual such as yourself doesn’t “like” poetry and hasn’t taken a literature class. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/249 "2008-08-28T03:37:30Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] He’s one of my SDMB heroes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody with such a finely tuned dickhead radar, and he rarely lets an opportunity pass to share his findings. Bravo, Sir!!! Bravo!!! [/QUOTE] To be fair, around here, one’s dickhead radar doesn’t need to be all that sensitive to pick things up. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/250 "2008-08-28T03:55:58Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Well, before accusing her of being bad at spelling or worse, you could’ve at least Googled it. [/QUOTE] What’s the point of using an 18th century spelling for a 21st century username, other than more foolishness? “I’m a tyger, with wings. Squee!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/251 "2008-08-28T03:57:34Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] To be fair, around here, one’s dickhead radar doesn’t need to be all that sensitive to pick things up. [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t it just be dick-dar? I knew this guy once. I know him from an online Tolkien game, a text-based thing that, at least in our little area, required a fairly large base of Lord of the Rings knowledge well beyond the three-four base books of the series. The Silmarillion was a good thing to have read, but these people were letter-perfect on the Tolkien apocrypha – letters to his friends, notes scribbled on the back of envelopes, everything his son had collected out of the desire to earn an extra buck. So this guy played a knight-ish sort and had for several real-life years. He’d been on the game for something like three or four years when I met him. I remember a particular instance where he started dogging on RenFest people: “Actually strapping on metal and getting on a horse and pretending to be a knight is the stupidest, most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard.” “You say this,” I said, “while sitting in front of a computer in your boxer shorts pretending to be a knight?” Obviously, this was _totally different_ and _not pathetic at all_. Guys? We hang out on a MESSAGE BOARD. Online. We are all sitting in front of a computer right now arguing with people on a forum that grew up around a newspaper column in an obscure newspaper. WE’RE ALL ALREADY DWEEBS. LIVE WITH IT. I’m saying this to everyone. Furries? People are going to think you’re weird. Getting upset about it is akin to the guy with black-dyed jagged hair, ten piercings in his face, skin-tight leather pants, and red high-heeled shoes glowering at people for looking at him. People probably think I’m really weird when I dress up like a Viking. I smile and wave and pose for pictures and while everyone might think I’m a freak, I’m still having more fun than they are. Don’t let them harsh your groove and fly your freak flag freely. And non-furries? What the hell ever. With all the crappy stuff that you can get your blood pressure up about, people who dig Bugs Bunny more than you ever did are a negative 5 on the Richter Scale. Me, I think the whole thing is a little odd, though I love The Secret of NIMH and that ninja panda movie and Disney’s Robin Hood. I don’t care what y’all say, Robin was HOT. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/252 "2008-08-28T04:19:11Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] What’s the point of using an 18th century spelling for a 21st century username, other than more foolishness? “I’m a tyger, with wings. Squee!” [/QUOTE] As I happen to love that poem and would never begrudge anyone a literary reference or archaic spelling choice, I considered various ways to point out what a ridiculous post this was. I was going to point out that there’s no point in Dio using the name of a Greek philosopher, of Little Plastic Ninja masquerading as a toy, of someone using the name of fantasy character. Then, I realized, that this would all be wasted upon you and, truly, brevity is the soul of wit. To that end: It’s the fucking Internet and that’s what people _do_, you ignorant twat. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/253 "2008-08-28T04:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] What’s the point of using an 18th century spelling for a 21st century username, other than more foolishness? [/QUOTE] If there’s any poster on these boards who can be relied upon to take a stand against culture and education, it’s you, **Carol**. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/254 "2008-08-28T04:40:53Z")
What the fuck kind of way is that to spell Carrie, anyway? Do you think you’re some kind of goddamn twinkly tutu-wearing winged freak in a flower? I kid, oh Lord, you know I adore you ETA: AND I BET YOU AREN’T A REAL MILLER EITHER! ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/255 "2008-08-28T04:57:29Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] It’s the fucking Internet and that’s what people _do_, you ignorant twat. [/QUOTE] You forgot to “Squee”. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/256 "2008-08-28T05:35:09Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] No, not knowing one of the most famous poems in the English language doesn’t _make_ you incredibly stupid. It’s a _byproduct_ of you being incredibly stupid. [/QUOTE] I haven’t taken a literature class since high school and I’m pretty sure we didn’t cover that one, so… I don’t know. The fact that I’ve always had a vast preference for prose over poetry, and haven’t learned anything about the latter makes me stupid now. 😕 I suppose you’re perfectly well-rounded, then, and there’s nothing basic about any subject under the sun that you don’t know? > [@Omegaman](#): > > You’re here all day already, aren’t you? 😃 No, I sleep during the day, usually. I’m here all _night_ (on nights that I work). > [@](#): > > On preview: You don’t like poetry? Even furries like poetry Furry poetry makes Vogons jealous. > [@Carol Stream](#): > > What’s the point of using an 18th century spelling for a 21st century username, other than more foolishness? > > “I’m a tyger, with wings. Squee!” To be fair, as a username alone, it is slightly more logical than naming yourself after a town in Illinois ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/257 "2008-08-28T05:46:58Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] I haven’t taken a literature class since high school and I’m pretty sure we didn’t cover that one, so… I don’t know. The fact that I’ve always had a vast preference for prose over poetry, and haven’t learned anything about the latter makes me stupid now. 😕 [/QUOTE] That post just went completely over your head, didn’t it? Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, considering. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/258 "2008-08-28T06:32:27Z")
You got me. ☹ I’m really that stupid! Curses! Unmasked by the very unmasker who was trying to take off my mask! How’s that for irony? I just wish I could be a truly intelligent soul like yourself, the kind that sets his every stance on every subject in the world to the “SDMB Default” setting. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/259 "2008-08-28T07:43:32Z")
[This article](http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=660201) about Sacramento’s furry convention clears up some misunderstanding. Fewer than 700 of the 4100 attendees actually wore furry outfits. Actually most of the attendees “didn’t seem too attached to the furry fandom”. Lots of porn was sold: most tables had an adults only binder. The article mentions a survey of furries by Dr. Cynthia Pickett. Unfortunately I can’t find an article online, and it’s possible that this was an internet survey with bogus sampling. That said, most furries are white American males: average age is 25. "Eighty-two percent don’t own a fursuit. And 37.3 percent are bisexual, 32.7 percent are heterosexual, 25.5 percent are homosexual and 8 percent define their sexual orientation as “other.” " This compares with [David Rust’s 1998-2000 surveys](http://www.visi.com/~phantos/furrysoc.html) of furry conventions that he attended, which had roughly similar sexual preference breakdowns. In the Rust survey, only 2% identified themselves as zoophiles and less than 1% were plushphiles. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hostile-dialect-a-word-please/461375/260 "2008-08-28T08:28:08Z")
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