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  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Indeed. If you are communicating vocally, then say the actual phrase. :mad:
    jumpingjs wrote: »
    This reminds me of a time I watched this CBBC show, when these mis-behaving children were sent to a foreign school to appreciate what they have.
    Oh how I wish I could rant about that without derailing this thread... As military, I have come home to see people with no respect for anything in their day to day lives, things that they would not have if not for us sacrificing our lives for them. There are so many times I wish we could temporarily declare Martial Law, maybe for a month or so. People will never learn to respect what we give them unless we take it away for a while. Children are easy enough to teach, but most adults are nothing short of incorrigible.
    jumpingjs wrote: »
    Errrr? Did I say, one of the boy's aspirations in life was to be a lorry driver ...
    To do that, you need the ability to write reports, and the ability for clear communication over the radio. :rolleyes:
    fmgtorres1979 wrote: »
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lindaleff wrote: »
    That reminds me of when I was in Russia, and ambushed by missionaries from Amerika. Being from Amerika, not even one of them spoke Russian, so I was able to get rid of them by pretending that I don't know any English at all...and it worked quite well...:D

    Reminds me of the time I considered getting rid of some Gideons by claiming to be Muslim. (Note: I'm a Methodist.)
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    starting to think the sto forums has become the place ppl can be bullys and what that thing with star trek idic? something like that you all forget that you when you make thread like this some have thins called a learning disabilities mine is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstmann_syndrome had it since i was a kid
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lindaleff wrote: »
    To be honest, I have never needed to use Portuguese, not even once.

    Ah, you don't know what you are missing!! :P

    :)
  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    Reminds me of the time I considered getting rid of some Gideons by claiming to be Muslim. (Note: I'm a Methodist.)
    The next time Mormons come to your door, get rid of them by chanting Satanic incantations! :D


    /end thread derailment
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lindaleff wrote: »
    The next time Mormons come to your door, get rid of them by chanting Satanic incantations! :D
    This Mormon wants to come to your door and hear your attempts at Satanic incantations, and then laugh and one-up you. :D :P
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Now you reminded me of that joke (don't know if it works in English) in which Jehova's witnesses ring the bell. The guy asks: "Who is it?".
    They reply: "Jehovah's witness".
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited April 2014
    Unknown male voice: "Knock knock."
    Amy Pond: "Who's there?"
    Doctor #11's voice: "Yes."
  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    Unknown male voice: "Knock knock."
    Amy Pond: "Who's there?"
    Doctor #11's voice: "Yes."

    Here's one in which "lol" is perfectly adequate. So... lol
  • grace58grace58 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    fmgtorres1979 wrote: »
    I hear people saying it, let alone writing it!

    Tell me, why on earth will someone who is laughing say that he/she is laughing? Moreover, we speak in our own language, lol is not in our language!

    Oh well...

    Yeah, I've always felt as if it was... how do I put this nicely... stupid to say out loud, as in verbally announce "lol" or "omg". I do not say "OMG" unless I'm chatting or texting, but I will say "oh my god".

    Oh hey, you know all the cool kids are saying "YOLO" these days :cool:
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  • ryan218ryan218 Member Posts: 36,106 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    grace58 wrote: »
    Yeah, I've always felt as if it was... how do I put this nicely... stupid to say out loud, as in verbally announce "lol" or "omg". I do not say "OMG" unless I'm chatting or texting, but I will say "oh my god".

    Oh hey, you know all the cool kids are saying "YOLO" these days :cool:

    I'd use the term 'cool' lightly...

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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    grace58 wrote: »
    Yeah, I've always felt as if it was... how do I put this nicely... stupid to say out loud, as in verbally announce "lol" or "omg". I do not say "OMG" unless I'm chatting or texting, but I will say "oh my god".

    Oh hey, you know all the cool kids are saying "YOLO" these days :cool:

    I had no idea. that would be SSVUV in my language eheheh
    I suppose language may one day develop to a point in which most of the sentence will not contain specific words. We already experience that in writing. That is not a major issue if all participants in said communication are aware of the meaning. But it's terrible when they don't.
  • jumpingjsjumpingjs Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    deaftravis05 wrote: »
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    It's important to have proper punctuation. I'm not anal about grammar to be honest... but, at the least... is it too much trouble to put a comma in the right place?

    I just saw the link ...

    The dangling particle was hilarious!
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  • jmaster29jmaster29 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    grace58 wrote: »
    Yeah, I've always felt as if it was... how do I put this nicely... stupid to say out loud, as in verbally announce "lol" or "omg". I do not say "OMG" unless I'm chatting or texting, but I will say "oh my god".

    Oh hey, you know all the cool kids are saying "YOLO" these days :cool:

    #YOLO #SWAG #CoD rulz!
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  • grace58grace58 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    No #Hugs #Kisses #Cuddles #Sephora Rules! :P
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  • grace58grace58 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    fmgtorres1979 wrote: »
    I had no idea. that would be SSVUV in my language eheheh
    I suppose language may one day develop to a point in which most of the sentence will not contain specific words. We already experience that in writing. That is not a major issue if all participants in said communication are aware of the meaning. But it's terrible when they don't.

    Yes, exactly. I see students write their papers and use acronyms from the weekly lesson or whatever and not explain what that means. So as a reader you hit that acronym and are just completely ?????? Just because the writer knows doesn't mean the reader does.
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited April 2014
    fmgtorres1979 wrote: »
    Here's one in which "lol" is perfectly adequate. So... lol

    I made up that joke at least a few years ago. Shared it back then with a mutual Doctor Who fan. They liked it too.

    As a punster, I like messing with my native language. One response I've had is: "Why do you abuse English so much? What has it ever done to you?" And when I say, "But I couldn't resist", the response is: "What do you mean you couldn't resist? You didn't even try."
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    As a punster, I like messing with my native language. One response I've had is: "Why do you abuse English so much? What has it ever done to you?" And when I say, "But I couldn't resist", the response is: "What do you mean you couldn't resist? You didn't even try."

    Actually, I consider puns (or at least the non-obvious ones) a demonstration of knowledge of a language. You have to understand a language well to take advantage of its ambiguities like that.
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited April 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    Actually, I consider puns (or at least the non-obvious ones) a demonstration of knowledge of a language. You have to understand a language well to take advantage of its ambiguities like that.

    I guess. I've also introduced myself to a friend of a friend: "Hi, I'm the friendly neighborhood punster" and the reply was: "Oh, I know you. You're eeevil."

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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I suppose this is helpful on the long run. The more we become ininteligible more people will be able to work in finding out what we wrote some 5000 years from now.
  • grace58grace58 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The how we communicate with each other continues to change as society changes. So naturally it will change in the future. lets hope for a smart change though.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited April 2014
    grace58 wrote: »
    The how we communicate with each other continues to change as society changes. So naturally it will change in the future. lets hope for a smart change though.

    Let's...

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