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All language is a construction anyway.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... -
I sometimes think that civilization would have progressed much more vigorously if the word "construction" was only used in the concrete sense.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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i would like a list of political neologisms that have actually caught on"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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African American.Comment
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They call themselves black now, with the term African-American reserved for official terms and making self-conscious white folk nervous. At least, that's how it is where I grew up.Comment
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I don't think I've had need to use a gender neutral pronoun in all my life.
If someone of unknown gender stole a bicycle for example, and I had to inform someone of it, I would just say:
'someone stole a bike'
'a person stole a bike'
'a bastard thief stole a bike'
Why the need for a stupid gender neutral pronoun? The only people who seem to have a problem is Europeans who have gender neutral pronouns built into their own language. My message to them is this: stick to your own language.Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org/Comment
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What European languages have a gender neutral pronoun?
Well, Armenian does, but nobody gives a fcuk about Armenian.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Where's Ze Huangdi when we need hir
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Why hir...that is a really awkward word. I would automatically go for hem...far easier to say and shorter
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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"I" can say: black... YOU have to say: african-american
Order of the FlyComment
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Yeah, I'll call someone in London that - they'd be horribly insulted by being called an American
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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@ provost
Order of the FlyComment
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Are you Jamaican?Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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close enough been there b4, im an OG in the 'hood, and have a TREMENDOUS amount of respect for their culture. ive been "adopted"
i actually live in florida
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Just curious, I have a friend (and now a former colleague) who is Jamaican - it is quite interesting to talk to him about what the perceived stereotype of Jamaica is and what it is actually like. He was a clever bloke, managed to get out of the ****ty department I work in and get himself a good R&D position in formulation
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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