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| Apr-13-11 | | I Like Fish: a dead line...
is negative inspiration...
still...
it is better than...
no inspiration at all... |
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| Apr-13-11 | | dakgootje: <Further, I agree on the obvious need to be able to communicate in public places in ways that are obscure to the non-cognescenti (which often includes me). It is more fun that way as well.> Interestingly, I find this much easier in English than in Dutch. You might feel the same way. I don't really know whether the reason is that I am simply not used to obscurity of any kind in Dutch; or that English is somehow more suitable. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | hms123: <I find this much easier in English than in Dutch. You might feel the same way.> I do feel the same way--mainly because I don't speak Dutch. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | dakgootje: :D
Is it compulsory to learn foreign languages in the usa by-the-way? Must be mighty handy if you are fluent in, say, English, Spanish and Mandarin-Chinese. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | hms123: <dak> It is not even compulsory to learn English. I am serious about that. Not only is it not compulsory to study (much less learn) a foreign language, there are many instances (historical and present) where public schools used (and use) a foreign language. It was very common at one time in parts of the midwest for schools to use German (of course, this was before WWI). Here's one article of relevance: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/... |
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| Apr-13-11 | | dakgootje: Thanks for that - very interesting! I loved "Mary Zastrow, 65, says when she's frustrated, she blurts out a German phrase her Dad used to say, but she's not exactly sure what it means." :D There is just something that makes swearing in foreign langauges much more fun. Less serious as well. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | hms123: <dak>
<There is just something that makes swearing in foreign langauges much more fun. Less serious as well.> And more dangerous at times. A mild profanity in one language can be very rude in another no matter what the dictionary says about it. In fact, <WoodyWoodPusher> was suspended for a while for using a common phrase in British that was deemed totally unacceptable in American. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | dakgootje: Well, any word can be a profanity in some other language. Similar to when Toyota tried selling the MR2 in France :) |
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| Apr-13-11 | | hms123: <dak> heh. I am thinking more along the lines that <bloody> in British is apparently much harsher than it is in American (where it doesn't exist as profanity)--and that an American who uses the word in Britain might be surprised at the response. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | dakgootje: Is it?
I was aware there were differences, but thought it was mainly unused in American-English and a word to give the following-word a bit more force in British-English. So usage would range from bloody brilliant to bloody awful. Example: These crumpets really are bloody marvelous!
But in a more slang-ish way. So probably more something like: Example: This bloody beer tastes like the bloody bath-water of some bloody peasant after farming his bloody cows. Note how in this example the word 'bloody' can be interpreted as both positive and negative, depending on favorite-flavor. |
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| Apr-13-11 | | crawfb5: Visitors to the US might want to limit use of the term <Yank(ee)> south of, say, Pennsylvania, where it can be construed as profanity or at least an insult. As shown in this common semi-joke in the south:
"I was twelve years old before I learned that #$%@yankee wasn't one word." |
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Apr-13-11
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: "Bloody" is on CG's list of censored words, class II (i.e. those that don't get automatically replaced with a link-breaking string of characters from the upper reaches of the keyboard but still can't ever appear in Recent Chessforum Activity)... |
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| Apr-13-11 | | hms123: <Switch> You are right. I just tried it at my forum (and then deleted it). I typed <bl---- awful> and it showed up as ellipsis dots on the <recent activity> page. How in the bl**** h*** did you know that? |
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Apr-13-11
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: Probably because I bloody use words like that.
(There's also a third type of censored words, viz. those that can't be used in a kibitz at all. A prominent entry in that category is <whatthefat>'s initials. There are actually at least three game collections at CG that are impossible to link to directly, because when you link to a game collection in a post that collection's name will appear, and those game collections have <whatthefat>'s initials in their name!) |
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Apr-13-11
 | | Domdaniel: "What bloody man is that?", as we in the Shakespeare Squadron often ask ourselves. When a group of Frogspawn Shakespeare squaddies led by the inimitably talented Jessica tested the limits of word bans, one word surprised me. The town of Bilbo, Newfoundland, is seemingly named after an artificial male organ. I hadn't even known that artificial males *had* organs. Or that applied dhildonics were subversive. But there you go. I don't believe in the existence of a 'sacred' thus I don't believe in 'profanity' either ... trust me, it follows. Ca suit.
Ach scheisse ich habe mein Laufer verloren. |
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Apr-13-11
| | Domdaniel: <J'aime les Poissons>
Exactement, Monsieur Fish
... moi, j'aime ...
... les lignes mortes ...
... quand les mots sont ...
... aux chiottes.
Negative inspiration. Sounds like *artificial desperation*, a breathing technique for emergency use. Gills, mebbe? But we should remember that the square root of the negative is imaginary, and often complex. Dory MacKerel aka The Squid |
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Apr-13-11
| | Domdaniel: Our friend's taboo initials, as noted by <Switch Q> are also a common acronym in the search engine biz. Where To Find ... trouble? |
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| Apr-13-11 | | TheFocus: <crawfb5>< Visitors to the US might want to limit use of the term <Yank(ee)> south of, say, Pennsylvania, where it can be construed as profanity or at least an insult. As shown in this common semi-joke in the south:
"I was twelve years old before I learned that #$%@yankee wasn't one word."> In the South, what is the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee? A Yankee comes to visit.
A Damn Yankee comes to stay. |
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Apr-13-11
 | | Annie K.: <... Today I got up, wrote 1300 words in two hours, and sent it off at 10.56am. I was told that 11.00 might be getting late-ish. No probs.>
Impressed, as intended. ;) |
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Apr-14-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Ah, but that was the simplified version. In truth, I got up at 06:00, to give myself a clear five hours at it. Then I did nothing -- huddled in a ball neurotically and listened to the radio, mostly -- until 09:00. Only then, with two hours left, could I force myself to move. And I still made it with 4 mins to spare, and it was in today's paper. But you see why I don't play blitz? A certain tendency to *postpone* things ...? |
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Apr-14-11
| | Annie K.: But... that's exactly the way *I* usually do things. And I can still play blitz. Still impressed, too. ;) |
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Apr-15-11
| | Domdaniel: We aim to please.
;)We miss a lot, true. Who doesn't? |
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Apr-15-11
| | Annie K.: Heh... well, yes. ;)
Speakina, from "elsewhere":
<Dom: <If you want to explore the mathematics of chess, try n-dimensional matrices.>> A subdomain of teh cheezburger site is Memebase, which is something about halfway between the Lolcats proper and the infamous 4-chan; it features some lighter shades of trolling. One of the mainline trolling types is called 'troll science'. Having been thus forewarned/"educated", it was easy to recognize the output of a certain poster as a rather simple-minded example of said practice. The recommended course of action, as usual, is Do Not Feed. :p Also, next time I buy a new bed, when the salesman asks me what kind of mattress I want, I'll tell him that I'm not sure, but I heard n-dimensional mattresses were cool, aifinkso. ;) |
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Apr-15-11
| | Domdaniel: Yep, n-dimensional mattresses are famously cool ... somefink to do with the way the poly-air circulates between the polycules of temperfoam. Temperfoam, temperfoam. Somebody told me that n-dimensional maitresses were cool too, but what would I know? |
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Apr-15-11
 | | OhioChessFan: Wherefore art thou Temperfoam? |
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