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- Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:48 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225403
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
I guess that would work. On that note, though, I don't think I've ever seen that meaning for "hot" outside of newspaper/magazine headlines. Or at least, I'd feel really weird using it.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:22 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225403
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Oh god, I don't want headlines about either spicy or sexually attractive dogs.
- Mon May 30, 2016 10:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: noun adjective order cross-linguistically
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5259
Re: noun adjective order cross-linguistically
...yeah, that would make sense.finlay wrote:I got the impression he made a typo
- Sun May 29, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: noun adjective order cross-linguistically
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5259
Re: noun adjective order cross-linguistically
(in creek, numerals and some quantifiers that are typically a closed lexical class in other languages are pretty transparently verbal. verbs can do a lot of different things in creek, and a lot of things that other languages wouldn't consider particularly verby are expressed by verbs) That sounds i...
- Sat May 28, 2016 9:19 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225403
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
If anything, that one is misleading and zompist's is the one that has only one interpretation (even though "hot dogs" still tripped me initially).
- Sat May 28, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311307
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Yeah, sexuality is fluid and there's no reason to adopt a label if you're not comfortable with it.
- Sat May 28, 2016 12:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311307
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Plenty of asexuals are sex-repulsed, and I think fine with that? There are sometimes people who are just repressed or whatever who think they are asexual but turn out not to be, and some people, like Imralu, don't like being asexual, but that doesn't really have anything to do with being sex-repulsed.
- Tue May 24, 2016 9:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
I really don't see what the problem is with thinking some things are bad, which is basically what you all are saying, here. no one is speaking about empathy: you don't need empathy to figure out that your enemies are people who sincerely believe what they do, That is literally what empathy *means*. ...
- Tue May 24, 2016 7:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
That's because the South lost, and secession didn't succeed. You don't consider the CSA to be a separate country. Things could have worked out differently. The citizenry of the CSA certainly didn't support (much less choose) the policies which were imposed upon them at the end of the war. What does...
- Tue May 24, 2016 5:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
Nort, what is even the difference between 4 and 5? A wedding cake is a wedding cake. It's not like there's a lot of room for doing weird shit with a wedding cake to the point where it is somehow specifically "gay". I thought you were a sociologist. Don't you think it's important who holds the social...
- Mon May 23, 2016 9:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
You seem to be making a bunch of unwarranted assumptions about me. What gives you the idea that I'm not aware that if I had been raised in a different social context I'd have different opinions? I don't think I'm right because these happen to be the opinions I've always had, I've actually put though...
- Mon May 23, 2016 6:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
I see, this is where we redefine "conservative" and "liberal" to mean whatever the hell we want so we can call each other names. I'll leave you to it. I don't know what you think atheists even have to do with this, either.
- Mon May 23, 2016 5:02 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
Or is it only "untasteful hegemonic force" when we ask businesses to serve black people? No, it's generally untasteful hegemonic force when we violently ban the other from nonviolently exercising their beliefs for the purpose of making our beliefs the universally accepted view. This is, in this cas...
- Mon May 23, 2016 2:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
Sal, no one ever complains that they can't kick people out of their place of business because they are black, or women. Why is this different? they do, for a decade or two, and then they get used to it as increasingly the fewer and fewer folks who do get looked at with more and more suspicion. This...
- Sun May 22, 2016 8:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
From what I gather, towns are much closer together over there. Where I grew up, it wouldn't be reasonable to go to a different town for something like a cake, although that's different now that I'm in New England (or at least, this part of New England), and obviously it'd be different in a big city,...
- Sun May 22, 2016 4:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
If I said that was an argument against something that doesn't happen put forward as an argument against something real, would that clear it up for you?
- Sun May 22, 2016 4:15 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Discrimination (from garden path thread)
I don't think you read Sal's post. I was addressing his complaint about, "It's particularly inevitable that passions will be raised in the case of artisans like bakers"... and the personal loss of liberty of artisans who are forced to create decorations that offend their artistic sensibilities. Thi...
- Sun May 22, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
This is what Sal said: And indeed their freedom more generally. Normally people have a right to decide their own actions - they can, for example, choose who they want to spend time with, do business with, etc. So, for example, if you're doing really well in a casino, they can ask you to leave, witho...
- Sun May 22, 2016 3:44 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
No one's saying the government should force anyone to sell specific services. I'm not sure why you think we should jump straight to shut the business down for a first infraction of something that's so easily fixable, either. If it was a safety issue that couldn't be fixed in a timely manner, then su...
- Sun May 22, 2016 2:35 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
It's all very well to say "vote with your wallet" or whatever the buzzword is. but it could be that that bakery is the only convenient one, or the only one that makes certain types of cakes, or the only one you like... and realistically, if you adopt that policy, enough bakeries will have discrimina...
- Sun May 22, 2016 12:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Discrimination (from garden path thread and elsewhere)
- Replies: 143
- Views: 55326
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Sal, no one ever complains that they can't kick people out of their place of business because they are black, or women. Why is this different?
- Sun May 15, 2016 11:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pantheistic reincarnation via timey wimey ball
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3633
Re: Pantheistic reincarnation via timey wimey ball
Didn't Borges write about this?
- Fri May 13, 2016 8:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Reversal of writing direction
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5155
Re: Reversal of writing direction
Thanks, clawgrip, that's pretty interesting. I guess if writing direction can vary just based on aesthetics like that, the reason could just be something like it went through a phase where either LTR or RTL could be used (or boustrophedon starting in either direction), and someone influential starte...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Reversal of writing direction
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5155
Re: Reversal of writing direction
Yeah, that could work, too. Isn't the Japanese LTR because of influence from Western alphabets? I was kind of hoping for a reason for this for a script mainly used to write the dominant global language, which might not be as influenced by other languages. Would primary horizontal <-> vertical be les...
- Fri May 13, 2016 5:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Reversal of writing direction
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5155
Reversal of writing direction
It seems I've managed to remember my password.
I know Greek went from right-to-left -> boustrophedon -> left-to-right. Have other writing systems done something like this? Are there other ways/reasons writing direction might reverse? Why did Greek switch to/from boustrophedon?
I know Greek went from right-to-left -> boustrophedon -> left-to-right. Have other writing systems done something like this? Are there other ways/reasons writing direction might reverse? Why did Greek switch to/from boustrophedon?