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RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-29-2010 10:51 AM
I like how it makes a point of costing zero Canadian dollars.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Darg - 03-29-2010 07:57 PM
(03-26-2010 12:39 PM)Chaos Wrote: I know that... And I also know that language evolves... Doesn't necessarily make it right, but... meh. It's not like I care or anything.
Once the dictionary defines something, it becomes right, regardless of previous definitions.
To put it other words, dictionaries have the power to ret-con language.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-29-2010 08:10 PM
What if the dictionaries disagree with each other?
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Loyle - 03-29-2010 08:31 PM
Then let the Dict-wars begin!
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Darg - 03-30-2010 03:34 PM
(03-29-2010 08:10 PM)Milo Wrote: What if the dictionaries disagree with each other?
Then public opinion wins. If the majority of people agree that a technically "wrong" grammar or spelling usage is correct, it then stops being wrong. I will point you to the word "ain't", which for decades was considered "wrong", but has become such a part of the English subconscious that it's now defined in most dictionaries.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-30-2010 04:29 PM
It is still, however, wrong.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Haplo_64 - 03-30-2010 04:59 PM
No it ain't.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-30-2010 09:21 PM
Yes, it ai.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Darg - 03-31-2010 06:45 PM
Ain't. Ain't, ain't, ain't, ain't.
Besides, if everyone held fast to the "correct" way of speaking, most of the world would still be speaking Latin or the tribal language of their region.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-31-2010 06:55 PM
Is that a bad thing?
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Amanda Lynn - 03-31-2010 07:16 PM
I refuse to spell my words with a "u". Who cares if ain't ain't a word. If it's part of normal conversation, then that's all that matters.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 03-31-2010 11:45 PM
But it isn't part of normal conversation. I only ever use it when I'm intentionally trying to imitate an uneducated dialect.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Amanda Lynn - 04-01-2010 12:03 AM
Maybe not normal for you, but it's also not normal to misspell half your words with random "u"s.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Milo - 04-01-2010 12:25 AM
I'm sourry, did you say soumething?
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Darg - 04-01-2010 06:44 PM
(03-31-2010 11:45 PM)Milo Wrote: But it isn't part of normal conversation. I only ever use it when I'm intentionally trying to imitate an uneducated dialect.
Aw, hell, I can speak all "educated" and crap when I need to also, but it's more fun to not to. Besides, it helps me seem less like an elite jackass to the unwashed masses if I "dumb-down" my language and seem relate-able to them.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - sXeAndriex - 04-02-2010 12:34 AM
Calling them the "unwashed masses" probably hurts your ruse.
RE: Phase 11: Cold Welcome; Part 1: Toronto Chainsaw Massacre - Darg - 04-02-2010 06:18 PM
Well I obviously don't call them that to their faces, that'd just be rude. I just subtly hint that they need to bathe more regularly ... wait, throwing bars of soap at them while wearing a sanitary face mask is subtle, right?