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1 hour ago, Cainan said:

Gentlemen.. please put away your duelling swords and turn around and walk away in opposite directions... Take a break and come back when we are ready to be a bit less personal.

Well, we have recently learned that the Venn diagram of fencers and drum corps enthusiasts is much larger than I ever thought ... I suppose dueling was inevitable.

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26 minutes ago, skevinp said:

If words are not allowed to have have established meanings, then communication becomes impossible.  

English, circa 1000:

"Byrhtwold maþelode,     bord hafenode
se wæs eald ġenēat,     æsc ācwehte;
ful baldlīċe     beornas lǣrde:
'Hiġe sceal þē heardra,     heorte þē cēnre,
mōd sceal þē māre     þē ūre mæġen lȳtlað.

Hēr līð ūre ealdor     eall forhēawen
gōd on grēote.     Ā mæġ gnornian
se ðe fram þisum wīġplegan     wendan þenċeð.
eom frōd fēores;     fram ne wille,
ac be healfe     mīnum hlāforde,
be swā lēofan men     licgan þenċe.'"

 

English, circa 1400:

"Perle, plesaunte to prynces paye
To clanly clos in golde so clere,
Oute of Oryent, I hardyly saye,
Ne proved I never her precios pere.
So rounde, so reken in uche araye,
So smal, so smothe her sydes were,
Queresoever I jugged gemmes gaye
I sette hyr sengeley in synglure.
Allas, I leste hyr in on erbere;
Thurgh gresse to grounde hit fro me yot.
I dewyne, fordolked of luf-daungere
Of that pryvy perle withouten spot."

 

English, circa 1800:

"It is an ancyent Marinere,
  And he stoppeth one of three:
'By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye
  Now wherefore stoppest me?'

'The Bridegroom's doors are open'd wide
  And I am next of kin;
The Guests are met, the Feast is set,—
  May'st hear the merry din.—'

But still he holds the wedding-guest—
  'There was a Ship,' quoth he—
'Nay, if thou'st got a laughsome tale,
  Marinere! come with me.'"

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25 minutes ago, kdaddy said:

I tend to agree. It was the slogan invented by the boots-on-the-ground movement, not by strategists polling a focus group. It was born from the people responding to police brutality and who were caught up in a moment.

Did you see the story about the recent college graduate who asked Merriam Webster to update their definition of "racism"? MW agreed that they needed to expand it.

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29 minutes ago, kdaddy said:

The use of "the usual suspects" is somehow defined as an attack.

And here I thought it was a reference to Blue Devils' 1997 show.

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57 minutes ago, kdaddy said:

I tend to agree. It was the slogan invented by the boots-on-the-ground movement, not by strategists polling a focus group. It was born from the people responding to police brutality and who were caught up in a moment.

That said, some on here (the usual suspects) are more disturbed by vocabulary than what the movement is trying to respond to. It's unfortunate but in no way surprising.

 

and some on here like to assume what people think or feel

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5 hours ago, MikeD said:

Admin hat hete...

Please refrain from making derogatory posts directed at individual posters, no matter what “side” of the issues you come from.

 

ah #### i insulted myself

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16 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:

and some on here like to assume what people think or feel

And everyone thinks and feels the way I do.... 😜

And the “I” refers to the speaker and not JimF.... or you’d really be S.O.L.

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37 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

English, circa 1000:

"Byrhtwold maþelode,     bord hafenode
se wæs eald ġenēat,     æsc ācwehte;
ful baldlīċe     beornas lǣrde:
'Hiġe sceal þē heardra,     heorte þē cēnre,
mōd sceal þē māre     þē ūre mæġen lȳtlað.

Hēr līð ūre ealdor     eall forhēawen
gōd on grēote.     Ā mæġ gnornian
se ðe fram þisum wīġplegan     wendan þenċeð.
eom frōd fēores;     fram ne wille,
ac be healfe     mīnum hlāforde,
be swā lēofan men     licgan þenċe.'"

 

English, circa 1400:

"Perle, plesaunte to prynces paye
To clanly clos in golde so clere,
Oute of Oryent, I hardyly saye,
Ne proved I never her precios pere.
So rounde, so reken in uche araye,
So smal, so smothe her sydes were,
Queresoever I jugged gemmes gaye
I sette hyr sengeley in synglure.
Allas, I leste hyr in on erbere;
Thurgh gresse to grounde hit fro me yot.
I dewyne, fordolked of luf-daungere
Of that pryvy perle withouten spot."

 

English, circa 1800:

"It is an ancyent Marinere,
  And he stoppeth one of three:
'By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye
  Now wherefore stoppest me?'

'The Bridegroom's doors are open'd wide
  And I am next of kin;
The Guests are met, the Feast is set,—
  May'st hear the merry din.—'

But still he holds the wedding-guest—
  'There was a Ship,' quoth he—
'Nay, if thou'st got a laughsome tale,
  Marinere! come with me.'"

English, circa 2009:

"Marcos Zapata was a thief
Who once did steal, and roam the street
Until a heist of his went bad
He was shot (bang bang bang) and left for dead.
Before his last breaths of life
The witch saved him from the death of night
And so arose Relampago!  (thunderclap)
To fight away the evil foe.
And so begins our hero's story
Of life, of death, and return to glory."

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