Nietzsche

[Elok]

Do any of y'all know what he was talking about?

I don't. From what I can make out, he sounds like Ayn Rand, only less coherent and more poetic. Right-brain Rand.

[giblets]

How is it pronounced? How did German philosophers go from having easy names like 'Kant' to this monstrosity?

[Elok]

I've always heard it pronounced "knee-chee" or "knee-chuh."

[Ben Kenobi]

Knee-shay I believe.

[Elok]

There's a cool T-shirt out there featuring the "star-bellied Nietzsches," i.e. Seussian creatures with the mustachioed heads of a very profound German philosopher.

Anyway, was he smoking the wacky tobacky? Discuss.

[Ben Kenobi]

Anyway, was he smoking the wacky tobacky? Discuss.

Quite the contrary - he's well deserving of his reputation and standing as one of the most prominent philosophers ever. He's pretty much spot on.

[Al B. Sure!]

Knee-shay I believe.

Wrong.

I've always heard it pronounced "knee-chee" or "knee-chuh."

Right.

[Ben Kenobi]

Maybe that's how they say it in yankeestan.

[Al B. Sure!]

Maybe that's how they say it in yankeestan.

Don't you wish you were an American?

[regexcellent]

Maybe that's how they say it everywhere.

He's using the American version of "yankeestan" which is the Northeast.

[Ben Kenobi]

Don't you wish you were an American?

I speak like a Brit and I live in the south. Do I sound like someone who would follow Yankeestani pronounciation?

[Ben Kenobi]

He's using the American version of "yankeestan" which is the Northeast.

Yep. I don't talk like folks from the North East at all.

[Al B. Sure!]

Maybe that's how they say it everywhere.

He's using the American version of "yankeestan" which is the Northeast.

There's an American version of "yankeestan"? Why would Americans ever refer to anything American as a -stan? That's some weird **** for foreign people on Apolyton to do.

In fact, googling yankeestan comes up with very little. Mostly Yankees tan belts and Yankees tan hats.

[Ben Kenobi]

There's an American version of "yankeestan"? Why would Americans ever refer to anything American as a -stan? That's some weird **** for foreign people on Apolyton to do.

There's flyover country and there's yankeestan. It really is a completely different country.

[Al B. Sure!]

There's flyover country and there's yankeestan. It really is a completely different country.