For the 3rd time: I get it. I got it. I was wrong. A word was misspelled, and it didn’t occur to me that a major news media would do such a thing. I was wrong; they did. They misspelled a word I had never heard before, and when I couldn’t find it in a dictionary, in a fit of pique and mad at other things, I made the wrong conclusion.
The other words are much beloved by some of you; I get it.
But by all means, please continue the pile on if it makes you feel better. Apparently some of you can’t allow me to participate in a little self-deprecating irony in my above posts; you have no sense of humor for things like that. I get that, too.
I’ll remember everything I’ve learned in this thread, believe me.
Ya know, I kinda felt sympathy for you until I found out that you were angry for people using words that you did not know were words, and were just angry because people used language with too many syllables for you.
To you and all other pedant WOULD-BE linguists: Fuck off, it is my language, so I can do what I want with it.
Yeah, I did not read past the first page before replying, he didn’t deserve it.
This is a level of posting that’s too good to be limited to the SDMB. This is positively brilliant verse of an amazingly witty order. You are much more than the King of just soup, my friend.
Wow, pseudotriton ruber ruber, you can give a compliment much more eloquently than I can thank you for it, but I thank you sincerely nonetheless. And thanks to everyone else who had kind words for my foray into gimcrack nonsense verse. It was fun, but I like to think of it as good enough to be exclusive to the SDMB.
Every so often someone says “Why do you pay to post here?. Why do you invest time here?” Because every so often my fellow posters reward me. Your foray into poetry was one of those times.
I believe I’ve been asked here to partake of some of the mocking that my good buddy Snowboarder Bo has gotten. And quite deservedly.
I am a linguistic sculptor. I admit it. I believe that for the most part, new words should be created to meet new situations, not to replace older words that mean the same thing.
Thus I made this post this morning. I’m linking it here, because I think it still shows most of what I care to say about the subject of this thread. I recognize that language grows, changes, and evolves. And many pedants will fight valiant, and often futile, rearguard actions to minimize that.
But I’m still gonna fight my battles. And I stand by my claim from the other thread: analyzation adds nothing to the language.
Ooh, me too! Like when it’s a hot day out and my ice cream is all runny and I have to lick it really quick to get it into a nice conical shape so it doesn’t drip all over my hands and shirt. I just figured I was a hard licker, though–I like your term better!
Main Entry: is·sue
Pronunciation: 'i-"shü, -"syü
Function: noun
1 plural : proceeds from a source of revenue (as an estate) <rents, issues, and profits>
2 : one or more lineal descendants <died without issue> —compare CHILD, HEIR
3 a : **a vital question or problem ** <cited a national security issue> <raised an issue of public safety> b : a matter of dispute between two or more parties; specifically : a single material point of fact or law in litigation that is affirmed by one side and denied by the other and that is a subject of the final determination (as by jury) of the proceedings
Well, DrDeth, we can quote the cite, it just takes some modicumitude of effort.
You know, Bo, I agree that you have a right to your pet peeve whether Garfield226 likes it or not. But you posted your pet peeve to a message board. That’s a place where people discuss things. In fact, you posted it to the BBQ Pit, which is where people argue about things. A lot. In unpleasant ways. You have the right to hold onto your pet peeve, but everyone else has the right to respond to your complaints, too. Especially if you should happen to make Gaudere’s error.
