Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Loud Whispers]

Prime example right here.

You got ninja'd so bad it burns.

[Mageziya]

Prime example right here.

You got ninja'd so bad it burns.

Damn, normally it tells me, "There have been 'blah' new replies."

[XXSockXX]

So irregardless, I think sexism is a much nicer and more inclusive term for a non-nice, non-inclusive thing. Frankly, I haven't even heard transphobia that often, that seems to get lumped in with homophobia all the time. Which kinda makes sense I guess since from a homophobic point of view (that should cover the vast majority of cases), transphobia basically is homophobia. (I'm not aware of homosexual people disliking transsexual people).

[misko27]

I can't recall actually the last time I heard Transphobia, but it likely was on this forum, or linked from this forum. Oh yeah, something Vector linked I believe.

Anyway, as a Latin student let me say who really needs latin? At the end of the day That Transphobia meaning fear of Transsexualism is only bothering to people who's fear of change is on par with peoples fear of water. And Frankly people who are scared of change generally just say that they're scared of change.

Also, Relevant:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor — whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" — although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation — sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion — the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.

God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us — they are mostly out of fashion."
—Sigismund Smith

[IronTomato]

What I hate is when people pluralize words when that should be singular.

Moose/meese

The plural of moose is moose.

(I might be missing something here though)

Fun with goose/geese, presumably

Yeah, the plural of moose is moose. I know because there are plenty of mooses where I live.

On-Topic: Why don't we just nuke burger king?

[Loud Whispers]

On-Topic: Why don't we just nuke burger king?

It hasn't happened because the King supports the petro-dollar. You can bet if he tried to create a Burgerdollar the American army would be storming Burger King lands and in no time it'd be a 'democratic' burger republic.

[IronTomato]

No, I heard someone else say that and I thought it was stupid. Mostly because the person meant that we should literally nuke all the Burger Kings.

[XXSockXX]

You know, french farmers have a great tradition of dumping animal excrements on fast food restaurants, if there's an option besides nuking.

[Loud Whispers]

No, I heard someone else say that and I thought it was stupid. Mostly because the person meant that we should literally nuke all the Burger Kings.

What's stupid about that? I suppose it'd be stupid to nuke only burger king I guess.

[SealyStar]

Wait, isn't Asexuality the total lack of any form of sexual attraction? Isn't Bisexuality the attraction to both genders?

While we're at it, what's the difference between pan and omnisexualism?

There isn't one. Pan and Omni both mean "everything".

The compound words for sexual orientation were always etymologically bizarre. "Homo" and "hetero" are Greek, "bi" and "sexual" itself are Latin. "a" is Greek. "Pan" is Greek and "omni" is Latin.

People should learn to choose one ancient root language and roll with it, dammit.

[Sirus]

Wait, isn't Asexuality the total lack of any form of sexual attraction? Isn't Bisexuality the attraction to both genders?

While we're at it, what's the difference between pan and omnisexualism?

There isn't one. Pan and Omni both mean "everything".

The compound words for sexual orientation were always etymologically bizarre. "Homo" and "hetero" are Greek, "bi" and "sexual" itself are Latin. "a" is Greek. "Pan" is Greek and "omni" is Latin.

People should learn to choose one ancient root language and roll with it, dammit.

That ain't how English works, bub. It's a bastard language in every sense of the phrase, from roots to modern loan words, and that's the way I like it.

[Descan]

So irregardless, I think sexism is a much nicer and more inclusive term for a non-nice, non-inclusive thing. Frankly, I haven't even heard transphobia that often, that seems to get lumped in with homophobia all the time. Which kinda makes sense I guess since from a homophobic point of view (that should cover the vast majority of cases), transphobia basically is homophobia. (I'm not aware of homosexual people disliking transsexual people)

It's a problem.

[kaijyuu]

So irregardless, I think sexism is a much nicer and more inclusive term for a non-nice, non-inclusive thing. Frankly, I haven't even heard transphobia that often, that seems to get lumped in with homophobia all the time. Which kinda makes sense I guess since from a homophobic point of view (that should cover the vast majority of cases), transphobia basically is homophobia. (I'm not aware of homosexual people disliking transsexual people)

It's a problem.

Yup. Basically being part of an oppressed minority does preclude one from being prejudiced against other oppressed minorities. Logically you'd think people would see parallels, but they don't always.

A not-insignificant number of the LGBT community want to remove the "T." Some want to remove the "B" too, and others still want to separate the "L" and "G." Fortunately most people realize the need for cohesion and understanding, so schisms are usually small.

[MaximumZero]

Wait, isn't Asexuality the total lack of any form of sexual attraction? Isn't Bisexuality the attraction to both genders?

While we're at it, what's the difference between pan and omnisexualism?

There isn't one. Pan and Omni both mean "everything".

The compound words for sexual orientation were always etymologically bizarre. "Homo" and "hetero" are Greek, "bi" and "sexual" itself are Latin. "a" is Greek. "Pan" is Greek and "omni" is Latin.

People should learn to choose one ancient root language and roll with it, dammit.

That ain't how English works, bub. It's a bastard language in every sense of the phrase, from roots to modern loan words, and that's the way I like it.

English: Doin' it wrong since the 5th Century.

[Loud Whispers]

English: Doin' it wrong right since the 5th Century.

We're climbing in your thesauruses
Snatching your prefixes up
Trying to English them
So hide your nouns
Hide your verbs
And hide your adjectives because we stealing all the words up in here