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MrNubbz

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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #70 on: November 08, 2018, 07:43:42 AM »
Quote from: Anonymous Coward on November 07, 2018, 07:30:12 PM
There's a running thread over there 
Quote from: mcwterps1 on November 07, 2018, 09:35:03 PM
That "Area 51" section should really be changed to "The Cesspool"

Makes this whole thing look like a domestic terrorist site disguised as a CFB site.
Where is this infernal wasteland of forums you two speak of?
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #71 on: November 08, 2018, 07:44:37 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 07, 2018, 07:03:21 PM
the democratic masses consider "chili" to be a soup with beans

sorry Texas, the mass’ usage dictates it’s ‘correct’
It's not inspiring, but it's nevertheless true.  I mean, you could be a scholar studying the English language from the century before you, and discover a discrepancy...but the people around you are going to continue misusing the word because everyone misuses it and it's simply the way it's now used.
Words are to convey ideas...a word is only correct if it helps do so.  If you're "right" about a word, but no one understand it, you're wrong.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #72 on: November 08, 2018, 07:45:41 AM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on November 08, 2018, 02:53:18 AM
graduate high school.
graduate college.
Mass misusage has now allowed this to become proper, and I am not accepting it or adjusting. I will correct the younguns.
This is the issue in action - the masses who do not graduate college will always outnumber those who do, so they'll always have the numbers on this.  
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #73 on: November 08, 2018, 07:45:55 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on November 08, 2018, 07:42:04 AM
I probably hear it said 'supposably' around 80% of the time instead.
It's not even a misuse, it's changing the letters within a word, lol.
I've never heard that,maybe its a FLA-AZ thing
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #74 on: November 08, 2018, 07:51:12 AM »
I've heard "supposably" but not often.

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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #75 on: November 08, 2018, 07:53:15 AM »
TV has standardized the language, and accents, a good bit.

I don't hear many southern accents around me here in the ATL.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #76 on: November 08, 2018, 07:54:42 AM »
Quote from: Anonymous Coward on November 07, 2018, 07:28:17 PM
"Begging the question" is originally a logical fallacy that's sort of a circular logic thing. Where a person says some premise and makes a conclusion based off that before proving that the premise was actually true.
An example might be something like: "There are more blue-eyed QBs than WRs because there are fewer blue-eyed WRs than QBs."
That appears to be saying the same thing just rearranging the verbage.Hanging around the yinzers has taken its toll
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #77 on: November 08, 2018, 07:55:48 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 08, 2018, 07:53:15 AM
TV has standardized the language, and accents, a good bit.

I don't hear many southern accents around me here in the ATL.
You also have a lot of non-Southern transplants in Atlanta.  Austin is similar.
But head 60 miles east of here, and you get quite a bit of "Texas twang" back in the language.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #78 on: November 08, 2018, 07:58:09 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 08, 2018, 07:53:15 AM
TV has standardized the language, and accents, a good bit.That's a very valid point.But have you ever heard the Amish?To me they sort of sound like a blend of Pennsylvania Dutch,Appalachian Hill Folk and Canuck like the McKenzie Bros.

I don't hear many southern accents around me here in the ATL.Carpetbaggers prolly
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #79 on: November 08, 2018, 08:09:12 AM »
Speaking of the Amish, I was advised by folks when I moved to Cincy that I should check out "Amish furniture" because it was well built and cheap.  So, I ventured out east one Saturday to see said Amish furniture in shops etc.  I found two, and both were labeled as Amish, and the folks there were no more Amish than I am.  One lady admitted to me that they just had a wood shop out back building furniture and they didn't care who did the work for them.  It was marketing.  I'm sure some actually was made by the Amish, but most, probably not.

I gather they did not trademark the term.  

It's a bit like terms like Champagne used to be, or Chablis, or Hearty Burgundy (which is a bit of an oxymoron).

What is the etiology of the term "oxymoron" anyway?
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #80 on: November 08, 2018, 08:15:29 AM »
oxymoron (n.)
1650s, from Greek oxymoron, noun use of neuter of oxymoros (adj.) "pointedly foolish," from oxys"sharp, pointed" (from PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce") + moros "stupid" (see moron). Rhetorical figure by which contradictory terms are conjoined so as to give point to the statement or expression; the word itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean "contradiction in terms." Related: Oxymoronic.

It is related to "sophomoric", which makes sense.

I see "oxy" and think something was oxidized.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #81 on: November 08, 2018, 08:17:21 AM »
Looks like I have been misusing the term.
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #82 on: November 08, 2018, 08:20:08 AM »
Actually I bought Amish furniture Queen size bed and Kitchen table that stretches out to 10 feet(that I've never used).But i went down the the back roads and inner recesses.Holmes & Tuscarawas Counties found plenty of small family shops that usually sold directly to the big furniture stores.Saved over $800.00 on the Table/chairs and about $400.00 on the bed by picking it up and buying directly.So depends on where ya go
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Re: OT: Online Civility
« Reply #83 on: November 08, 2018, 08:21:18 AM »
Yeah, I'm sure there are "real Amish" shops, I just didn't find any poking around, and those two were just selling off the name.  I was a bit annoyed and gave up my search.

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