Posts made by Tinuviel

@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:

(think American trying to fake a Scottish accent)

Even though that's remarkably close to true, I pretend otherwise in my head.

@coin said in Creative/Clean insults?:

No one really knows.

Well, true. But that sort of study is literally my actual non-teaching career. So we figure it out, with our ways.

ETA: George Washington probably sounded similar to but distinct from modern southish England's English. Older forms of Hampshire or Sussex, mixed with modern Virginian.

@coin Huh, fascinating. I wonder if that's due to the s-to-th transition happened later, or because of native linguistic influence... To the lingua-lab!

"Some babies were dropped on their heads but clearly you were thrown at the wall."

@coin Are all the c consonants soft in Argentinian Spanish? More 's' like than 'k' like?

ETA: Sorry to derail the thread. Linguist mode activate.

@coin Oh. Is 'Naciste' pronounced 'na-kh-ee-st'?

@coin That's fairly common in the Anglophone world too: Did you have to study to be so stupid (or insert your own amusing epithet.)

@saturna said in Creative/Clean insults?:

I bet you put the spoon back in the sugar.

Of course I put the spoon back in the sugar. It's the sugar spoon, I don't stir with it. Don't be gauche.

My favourite clean insult/mocking comment was this: You make a glass of water feel particularly intelligent.

@admiral said in RL Anger:

Excuse me Sir! Do you believe every child deserves a fair start in life?

Oh I get that one too when I walk to work. I get to be all "Yes, that's why I'm going to teach them."

@surreality I get "omg why is everyone ignoring X?!?!"

Practice and patience, obviously.

@paris Aye. I also hate the "modern" idea that just because I don't publicly announce something every single time I open my mouth that I'm clearly on the "other side" of whatever argument is being discussed. If I don't publicly denounce racism every single time I log on to my computer, I'm clearly a racist or a 'racist enabler' but no, Sharon, this is my me time.

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@ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

except there's no drama, no supernatural things, and people actually like one another.

So... it's nothing like a World of Darkness game?

@Ganymede reminded me of this so blame her.

I hate, hate, hate, hate the mindset that says "There is only good, or bad."
Sometimes, things are just 'fine' and that's perfectly okay! Great is the enemy of good, and all that.

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

There's a difference between being a misanthrope and being a bigot.

A primitivist vegan is not a bigot, but is more-often-than-not a misanthrope under hipster clothes.

No, but the way your sentence was constructed seemed ambiguous enough for my brain to make the leap that you were describing racists and sexists as just misanthropes.

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

other misanthropists

There's a difference between being a misanthrope and being a bigot.

@krmbm said in Bloopers:

man-grabby

Is this a reference to a predatory man, or a harem-building woman with ideations on any man that's definitely taken?

@jinshei Man, people put way more effort into their TS than I ever have.

@vorpal said in Bloopers:

Peeing around the corner

Man, if I could pee at a ninety-degree angle... that sure would be something.

Venga Boys is not "old people music," dammit.