# I pit DrDeth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971 "2021-02-28T19:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 121
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2405 "2025-06-11T18:47:09Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > AND I learned something about linguistics, a subject in which I have no expertise but which I enjoy exploring. Quoted for truth. I speak several languages (badly!) but I find @Johanna incredibly instructive in cases where language is discussed. I wonder if our good doctor even has a second language. I mean, I am an amateur, but I can get by in colloquial Bahasa Indonesia, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Mozambiquan Portuguese, Zimbabwean chiShona… and my very British English. I’m only “good” at English. The rest vary from “barely conversant” to “got a grade ‘A’ in GCSE exams”. (The actual Portuguese Portuguese people laughed at me when I went there because my accent and vocab were so parochial… but fortunately English is widely spoken there) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2406 "2025-06-11T19:20:24Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I am an amateur, but I can get by in colloquial Bahasa Indonesia, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Mozambiquan Portuguese, Zimbabwean chiShona… and my very British English. That’s so much fun, isn’t it? For example, seeing the links between the Mozambican Portuguese and the Bahasa Indonesia words for the days of the week, or for “table” and a few other words. Those similarities are totally unexpected (to me, anyway - Johanna wouldn’t be at all surprised) and delightful. When I was (barely) learning Portuguese, but already had a large Bahasa Indonesia vocabulary, I loved the overlap as it made it much easier to remember the Portuguese words. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2407 "2025-06-11T19:42:37Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > colloquial Bahasa Indonesia, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Mozambiquan Portuguese, Zimbabwean chiShona… and my very British English. Dude! No _Taal_? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2408 "2025-06-11T20:12:55Z")
Oh, my fucking Dark Gods. He just posted a Wikidump of a “cite” to the nitpicking thread that makes a mockery of his own post. He really is just so fucking dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2409 "2025-06-11T20:38:43Z")
That’s peak DrDeth right there. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2410 "2025-06-11T20:42:07Z")
Stepping on his own dick through Wiki cites is very much giving DrDumbth, you are correct. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2411 "2025-06-11T20:48:30Z")
We need another term - “doubling down” just doesn’t cut it for him. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2412 "2025-06-11T20:49:05Z")
Oooh, not getting to respond to my last post is going to grate on him, as he’s clearly in the Never Letting Go phase of his particular pathology. I expect an ATMB thread any minute… ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2413 "2025-06-11T20:53:56Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I expect an ATMB thread any minute… I’ll await it with bated breath… ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2414 "2025-06-11T21:22:29Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I’ll await it with bated breath… Surely you mean baited breadth 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2415 "2025-06-11T21:34:16Z")
Surely it’s breth. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2416 "2025-06-11T21:40:28Z")
Anyone else feel kind of sorry for him? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2417 "2025-06-11T21:47:52Z")
I feel no sympathy whatsoever. That was a spectacular example of digging up unverified cites on Google to support a position he clearly had no real knowledge of. He didn’t just use a shovel to dig himself in, he handcrafted it by fashioning the handle from an oak he chopped down in his backyard, and he built his own blacksmith facility just so he could forge the blade. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2418 "2025-06-11T21:50:28Z")
A lot of it is because he’s not all that bright. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2419 "2025-06-11T21:50:44Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > He tried to sell me the linguistic equivalent of flat Earth. Denial of Proto-Indo-European, which is literally the best established thing in the whole field. He should be along soon to tell you how you just misused _literally_. 🤣 > [@TroutMan](#): > > We need another term - “doubling down” just doesn’t cut it for him. DrDeth spiraling. > [@madmonk28](#): > > Anyone else feel kind of sorry for him? I only have sympathy for honest people. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2420 "2025-06-11T21:53:02Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > That was a spectacular example of digging up unverified cites on Google to support a position he clearly had no real knowledge of. I think it was one of the most efficiently-wrong posts we’ve seen on the _dope_ per se in awhile. By multiquoting, he managed to be wrongly nitpicking nitpicks on several topics at a time. Although you can probably easily find such concise wrongness elsewhere on the internet, and definitely from politicians. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2421 "2025-06-11T22:09:00Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Oh, my fucking Dark Gods. He just posted a Wikidump of a “cite” to the nitpicking thread that makes a mockery of his own post. He really is just so fucking dumb. Perfect example of > [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > And I provided cites- lots of cites. > > With your history of not reading your own cites? Please. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2422 "2025-06-11T23:20:16Z")
Also a perfect example of his conviction that revisionist history must be true because, well, it’s revisionist, and his cited articles and books prove it, not that he bothered to read them for comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2423 "2025-06-11T23:53:36Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Dude! No _Taal_? I understand die Kaapse Taal, and Stellenbosch Afrikaans, but I’ve never, to my shame, learnt to speak either. I mean I can, but so badly it is embarassing. And when I say “understand” that means I know a lot of swearwords, I learnt much of what I know in taxis from gaatjies… who may not be the best language tutors. For non South Africans, a “taxi” is a minibus form of public transport, the gaatjie is the person who drums up business and handles the money, and both he (it is almost always a man) and the driver can be guaranteed to produce some of the finest swearwords - and Afrikaans excels here - I have ever heard. An example translates to “you are lower than a snake’s shit’s shadow”, though it is more colouful in Afrikaans. ( Jy is laer as 'n slang se stront se skaduwee ) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2424 "2025-06-12T01:18:57Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I bet DrDerp doesn’t even know a second language, let alone ancient or proto-languages, but of course he has to chime in with basically saying “it’s just a theory”. Don’t worry, I’m sure his daddy became an expert at Tagalog while he was on Douggie McArthur’s personal staff. Why, I bet McArthur even taught it to his daddy personally. That is doubtless where he picked up his expertise in linguistics. > [@madmonk28](#): > > Anyone else feel kind of sorry for him? No. Not in the slightest. > [@madmonk28](#): > > A lot of it is because he’s not all that bright. I’ve got nothing against people who aren’t that bright. He isn’t that bright, but that’s not his problem. It’s that he’s dishonest to the point of lying compulsively. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971.md?page=122)