War Room Lounge V44: Backup Whores, or Back Up, Whores?

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The only thing more embarrassing than the street fighting subforum is the meme thread. I cant believe sherdog promotes either.

It's higher than music discussion and the sports bar! Here's Mayberry where we all act like marks, and here's the Street Colosseum where we watch people curb stomp each other lol.
 
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To clarify, I'm looking at it from the standpoint of normal grammatical usage, but I see you're thinking of it in the sense of "I would go to Kansas for a shooting war--well, that or an abortion pick-up/drop-off." But in that case, I think the extra words are needed to keep it from being a simple this-or-that statement. I.e. if you insert an em dash, it will appear to be extraneous next to the word or, IMHO.
That change looks legit. To remove all punctuation, I would add "only" as the third word.
 
It also has the byproduct of widening your vocabulary, which is always good. I get lots of shit for using "big words", but it makes sense when that big word replaces 5 little ones.
English is losing this battle so hard, and on multiple fronts. I don't know if you're an Arrested Development fan, but after Buster learns Arabic, he says something that sounds like a cough and when they ask him if he's okay, he tells them that it was a word for laundry, "but like a child's laundry- we don't really have a word for it in English." I laughed pretty hard at that.

We're becoming more concise, but not in a good way that is dense with meaning, like you get from using subtle words. We're just losing meaning. It's also happening to our idioms, though in a different way. Specific things like "sour grapes" have become one-size-fits-all for things like "being a bad loser." Even our dictionaries are giving up.
 
English is losing this battle so hard, and on multiple fronts. I don't know if you're an Arrested Development fan, but after Buster learns Arabic, he says something that sounds like a cough and when they ask him if he's okay, he tells them that it was a word for laundry, "but like a child's laundry- we don't really have a word for it in English." I laughed pretty hard at that.

We're becoming more concise, but not in a good way that is dense with meaning, like you get from using subtle words. We're just losing meaning. It's also happening to our idioms, though in a different way. Specific things like "sour grapes" have become one-size-fits-all for things like "being a bad loser." Even our dictionaries are giving up.

Are you telling me that a 160 character message isn't the ideal medium of communication?

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Yea... sad thing is I frequently reread and revise before making the post and it still comes out as shit. I’ll get to a third revised version of a work email and finally be like “fuck it, they know what I mean” or just go talk to them in person.

Where do you usually meet people in person?
 
Where do you?

At a cafe, mall, street, park, lounge, bar, cabin, hotel, concert, restaurant there is no limitation to meet new and profound Sapiens....
 
At a cafe, mall, street, park, lounge, bar, cabin, hotel, concert, restaurant there is no limitation to meet new and profound Sapiens....

The more options the merrier.
 


For real, though, it's crazy to think that the Tea Party is 10 years old now and its constituents and faux-ideology are stronger now than ever. Everyone thought that the incoherence and stupidity of the movement would be the death knell of the American conservative movement and the Republican Party because of how incredibly uninformed and hysterical it was, what with their birther conspiracies and accusations of Nazism/communism and Islamist/atheist tyranny because of a market-based expansion of healthcare coverage.

I think/hope that the Tea Party circa 2009/2010 was the height of Fox News' poisoning of American politics @kpt018
 
This is a really good exercise. I had ''science and society'' course that, for whatever reason, was mandatory in my bachelor's. The instructor realized that it was fluff and he could do whatever he wanted with it. So he had us read all kinds of whacky shit. He was going to give us all A's anyways, so it didn't matter that he was a dick with reading assignments. Every week we had to read some ridiculously long and abstruse essay or excerpt from a book (usually sci fi of some sort), and we had to summarise the entire thing into 200 words. Not 200 words or less. 200 words exactly. It really makes you think about every word you put in each sentence.

I see the value in it, but personally I hate it. It gives people who pay no attention to detail an excuse to deride anything they don't immediately comprehend.

In business, sure, you don't always want to waste time on the minutiae. But anywhere you're seriously thinking and trying to get to the deep truth of things - well, sometimes you need a few more sentences. It reminds me of ignoring confidence intervals in science papers. They don't matter until they do.

If people could demonstrate both the ability to close-read and be concise, then I'd be more comfortable doing the latter routinely. But in my experience people hear "explain your point to a 4-year old" once and decide close-reading is a waste of time, dooming themselves to an eternity of mediocre literacy.

Turns out 4-year olds are idiots.
 
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