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Originally posted by Jon Miller
I don't think that fundamentally Bi people exist
I don't think that fundamentally Bi people exist
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THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF -
IIRC, my linguistics prof said Sapir-Whorf was debunked long ago.Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Maybe it's Sapir-Whorf at workComment
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Yes, I am sure. When the person you are talking to understands that the subject is singular, it obviously is not going to be mistaken for plural.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Many? Are you sure it isn't all circumstances?
Even in strictly grammatical terms, when you say "Someone left their sandwich on the table" the subject is obviously singular.Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
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Not so.Originally posted by General Ludd
Yes, I am sure. When the person you are talking to understands that the subject is singular, it obviously is not going to be mistaken for plural.
Even in strictly grammatical terms, when you say "Someone left their sandwich on the table" the subject is obviously singular.Comment
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Are you absolutely sure? I'd suggest looking up the meaning of the word "they" before answering rather than simply going with the definition you made up.Originally posted by General Ludd
Yes, I am sure.
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Yes, absolutely. I have experienced it first hand many times - on a daily basis, infact.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Are you absolutely sure?
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Well, um... yeah, for them I guess it's about political correctness. For us geeks it's about precision.Originally posted by Lorizael
No, it is about political correctness, but it just so happens this would clear up a good deal of ambiguity in communication, too. If this movement were picked up by any group even a little bit more mainstream than the LGBT, it might actually get somewhere.
Hm... yeah. Now that I think of it... people in CS tend to apply the weak (and somewhat obvious, unlike the strong form of complete linguistic determinism) form of the hypothesis in a slightly nonstandard way: Basically, what languages you know determines what concepts you can comfortably work with, and language features based on unfamiliar concepts seem difficult, weird or useless. Thus, while all it takes to learn a new feature or language is to study and use it, paradoxically until you learn it you can't actually see how it could be useful. You can't determine the usefulness of gender-neutral pronouns without actually using them (and to me, they do seem very useful).IIRC, my linguistics prof said Sapir-Whorf was debunked long ago.This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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Homosexuality and Heterosexuality are fundamental. We see them in nature, arrising in situations where there is no social explanation.Originally posted by LordShiva
Bisexuality is just the result of hedonism or confusion, not of a fundamental desire.
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What about Asexuality?B♭3Comment
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It must be sad being that wrong.Originally posted by General Ludd
Yes, absolutely. I have experienced it first hand many times - on a daily basis, infact.
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 RubioComment
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how is queer not covered by any of the other ones?"I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburgerComment
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The stuff in the OP is only used by a few deranged lunitics. Everyone else laughs at them.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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If the gender is unknown then in gramatically correct English you use "he" as it is the proper default usage. I imagine that is the reason the radical feminists hate this rule so much and try to come up with gender neutral words; all of which are destined to be laughed at and then ignored.Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Gender-neutral pronouns might sound silly to you, but if you're actually used to speaking a language that has them (and moreover if you're a geek with a fondness for precise expression anyway), not having them in English is a PITA sometimes. It's not about political correctness, it's about being able to succinctly say what you mean. To me, "he" is male and "she" is female. If I am, say, talking about a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant, I find it awfully inconvenient to use "he or she" and simply wrong (not wrong in a moral way but wrong since it's not what I mean) to just use one of the pronouns.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Even way back in the stone ages when I first went to college (late 1994) GLBT was a well known acronym. Of course I'm from the despised hippy, homo-gay, left coast so it might have taken a bit longer to catch on in the more boring and repressed parts of the country.Originally posted by Ninot
I've heard and used GLBT beforeTry http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Why do you hate English?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Not so.
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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