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Vector

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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #210 on: January 31, 2010, 08:34:40 pm »
NGAH.

I think my words are trying to kill me.  First I defined what I meant, and then I defined what I thought you meant.

So, in the "treatment of lesbianism," I did not mean chemical castration.  I meant "average social interactions between an arbitrary individual and an arbitrary individual with homosexual tendencies."  I specifically did not mean the "treatment" of Turing's "problem."
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #211 on: January 31, 2010, 08:40:14 pm »
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So, in the "treatment of lesbianism," I did not mean chemical castration.  I meant "average social interactions between an arbitrary individual and an arbitrary individual with homosexual tendencies."  I specifically did not mean the "treatment" of Turing's "problem."
...But I still don't understand what you mean.  The British state sent one of the finest minds of his generation to his death by forcing him to be "treated".
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #212 on: January 31, 2010, 08:42:36 pm »
-*ding
"How society treats(deals with) a lesbian"
"treat well/poorly"
I'm not sure how that eluded me so long. Usually I'm on the other side of these misunderstandings.
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I think my words are trying to kill me.
Quick, pin down the dictionary before it gets anyone else؟

؟: (/sarcasm)
edit: Leafy-chan, don't get trapped by the equivocation. She's meaning that originally she meant "how society interacts with homosexuals" for "treatment of lesbians" and anything referring to Turing is the other sense of treatment-which is now considered offensive in this specific context.
« Last Edit: January 31, 2010, 08:45:06 pm by CobaltKobold »
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #213 on: January 31, 2010, 08:43:32 pm »
Oh, right.  Now I get it.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #214 on: January 31, 2010, 08:49:48 pm »
YES THANK YOU

Can we get back to talking about censorship and porn?
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #215 on: January 31, 2010, 08:51:40 pm »
Quote from: Vector on January 31, 2010, 08:49:48 pm
YES THANK YOU

Can we get back to talking about censorship and porn?
Dictionarys ARE porn for people with really good imaginations.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #216 on: January 31, 2010, 08:54:10 pm »
Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on January 31, 2010, 08:51:40 pm
Dictionarys ARE porn for people with really good imaginations.

The roof is porn to people with a good imagination.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #217 on: January 31, 2010, 08:54:59 pm »
Quote from: Realmfighter on January 31, 2010, 08:54:10 pm
Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on January 31, 2010, 08:51:40 pm
Dictionarys ARE porn for people with really good imaginations.

The roof is porn to people with a good imagination.
I can confirm this.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #218 on: January 31, 2010, 08:55:46 pm »
Quote from: Leafsnail on January 31, 2010, 08:54:59 pm
Quote from: Realmfighter on January 31, 2010, 08:54:10 pm
The roof is porn to people with a good imagination.
I can confirm this.

I'm fucking sigging this.

*Ta-Da!
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #219 on: January 31, 2010, 09:16:50 pm »
Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on January 31, 2010, 08:51:40 pm
Quote from: Vector on January 31, 2010, 08:49:48 pm
YES THANK YOU

Can we get back to talking about censorship and porn?
Dictionarys ARE porn for people with really good imaginations.
I think that may be what the parent was trying to assert when demanding it be removed.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #220 on: January 31, 2010, 09:23:58 pm »
Er, thanks, Realmfighter.  I'm sure the mental image is a good one.

Anyway, yes.  Corrupting dictionaries.
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« Reply #221 on: January 31, 2010, 09:34:26 pm »
This is transforming dictionaries from books to define words into books that limit people to the knowledge and use of accepted words
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #222 on: January 31, 2010, 10:04:34 pm »
He has a point, and what the dictionary doesn't teach, the other kids will.  Other kids is how I learned what boners were, before I was old enough to fully understand what they entailed.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #223 on: January 31, 2010, 10:27:15 pm »
Quote from: Cthulhu on January 31, 2010, 10:04:34 pm
He has a point, and what the dictionary doesn't teach, the other kids will.  Other kids is how I learned what boners were, before I was old enough to fully understand what they entailed.
Other kids is how I learned about so-called "bad" words and their meaning.
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Re: Dictionary pulled from school shelves as "sexually graphic"
« Reply #224 on: January 31, 2010, 10:42:46 pm »
How do you remember when you learned the "bad" words?

I only remember always knowing them...
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