CileTheSane

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Americans love their "France surrenders" memes, but when it comes to issues within their own country the response is always "there's nothing we can do, why aren't you fixing it for us?"

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

you are implying that the statement you are responding to is correct.

The statement "yes, you keep saying that" is not equivalent to "yes, what you keep saying is true."

Your inability and unwillingness to engage with the actual topic could not be more obvious.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Canada has a similar system (whichever candidate recieves a plurality of the votes wins the seat in the region) and has 5 different parties in their government.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Those that makes peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable."

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That just tells me how often we fail to find the right answer and then continue going ahead like violence is the right answer

Okay, so what was the right answer to say... Hitler trying to take over the world?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

It uses figurative language instead of the literal meaning of words so it's complete nonsense.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Those words are already lost.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

"Heaven" originally meant "the visible sky" so this is fine.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This guy is trying to mop up the beach every time the tide comes in.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Heaven forbid someone use a colloquialism! How will they ever be understood?

(For the sake of clarity I feel I must point out that I do not believe Heaven should, in fact, forbid such a practice. I fear without this clarification my first sentence is impossible to understand.)

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don't feel it's important to alter keys at their whim?

That would be the equivalent of a writer inserting bacon random words.

The musical equivalent would be a musician making a deliberate choice to alter the performance because they like how it changes the piece. I would be perfectly fine with that.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

A writer once put the letter 's' in 'eiland' in order to make the word look more Latin. This, despite the fact that the word 'island' has no Latin roots. It caught on and now that is the proper spelling of 'island' and you'd be a fool to try to force people to spell it 'eiland'.

English is used by the unwashed masses and trying to get it to adhear to strict rules or not change will be as effective as trying to stop a flood by holding out your hand.

English was not exactly right when you were born with the spelling of 'island' and was wrong hundreds of years ago with 'eiland', nor is it wrong that dumb means stupid instead of mute, or literally can be used to mean figuratively.

Gif þū ne sacast for eftcyme to Eald Englisc, þonne is hit līcnessēocnes tō sacanne þæt sprǣc ne mæg wrixlan.

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