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  • I like french rap
    Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
    -Richard Dawkins

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    • I no longer respect you.
      I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
      For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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      • And I should care that the mote of dust has opinions on me because....?
        Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
        -Richard Dawkins

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        • Originally posted by Starchild
          I like french rap
          I like French women.
          http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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          • Originally posted by Starchild
            And I should care that the mote of dust has opinions on me because....?
            Gods like to have worshipers.
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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            • Originally posted by Ned


              I like French women.
              They don't shave.
              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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              • Do you think the mountain cares that the valley follows it? That the storm cares that the rain announces it's glory?
                Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                -Richard Dawkins

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                • You're no force of nature. Only a pathetic godling with delusions of grandeur and a poor sense of style.
                  I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                  For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                  • Originally posted by DinoDoc
                    They don't shave.
                    Really? I thought France was civilized.
                    http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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                    • And you are the candle compared to the supernova.
                      Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                      -Richard Dawkins

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                      • Originally posted by DinoDoc
                        They don't shave.
                        Obviously you don't know **** about French girls. More left for the rest of us, though I doubt you would be serious competition anyway.
                        In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                        • Chirac: "You are arrogant and if you disagree with me then it only proves how arrogant you really are".
                          Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                          • Originally posted by Sandman
                            Did the seventeenth century English use double negatives like Southerners do (i.e. they reinforce rather than cancelling out)?

                            "I ain't done nothing"

                            Is this in Shakespeare with its Southern meaning?

                            Before you complain that this is grammar, not accent, you've already used the lexicon with your 'ain't' point. I can quite imagine someone saying 'ain't' with an English accent.
                            I would assume poor grammar, which is different from vocabulary, quite so, was not characteristic of Shakespeare

                            However, they did speak with a Southern accent.

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                            • Originally posted by Tingkai
                              Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma so he might have a slight bias towards saying southern Americans had the best English, assuming he actually wrote that.

                              We all have biases, even the most brilliant of historians. We're shaped by our environments.

                              As for historical fact, your initial statement was not factual. It was a subjective opinion about who spoke the best English at that time.
                              DAVOUT said that American English is a degenerate form. It clearly CAN'T be one if it is closer to original English than English English is.

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                              • Originally posted by Tingkai
                                Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma so he might have a slight bias towards saying southern Americans had the best English, assuming he actually wrote that.

                                We all have biases, even the most brilliant of historians. We're shaped by our environments.
                                So I'm supposed to take seriously your assertion that he is wrong, based only on an ad hominem against him?

                                Riiight. I'll stick with the actual historical scholar.

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