If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2006 8:17:12 am PST #5716 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Rick - Feb 08, 2006 8:18:12 am PST #5717 of 10002
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
Agreed. Things that are hard to understand should be replaced with things that are easy to understand if the easy things do the job just as well. It's like, uh, the evolution of language.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2006 8:18:55 am PST #5718 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Toddson - Feb 08, 2006 8:19:30 am PST #5719 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Perhaps we need to establish a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Grammar ... or possibly Language as a whole.
Allyson - Feb 08, 2006 8:19:46 am PST #5720 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
"Which leads me to the question..."
I dunno. It's one of the few philosophy thingies I've ever understood right away, so I'm like Rainman/Wapner about it.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2006 8:20:11 am PST #5721 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Actually, that explains alot.
Rick - Feb 08, 2006 8:20:42 am PST #5722 of 10002
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
I like Woody Allen's version of this, from an early essay:
"If there is a God then tell me Uncle, why is there poverty . . . and baldness."
Jessica - Feb 08, 2006 8:21:38 am PST #5723 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Actually, that explains alot.
- Penguins
- Llamas
- Monkeys
flea - Feb 08, 2006 8:22:03 am PST #5724 of 10002
information libertarian
Speaking of the evolution of language, I read the phrase "equality and parody evaluations" this morning in an HR context. Which sort of mocks itself, really.
Also, I am rip-roaring mad at my child care center, the lying fuckity-fucks who owe me $170.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2006 8:23:29 am PST #5725 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Maybe we're just an elaborate reality show for a race of hyperdimensional beings with too much time on their hands (or pseudopods, energy fluxes, whatever).