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Highest Irrelevant American Third-Party Result (Major Party Results Will Be Bullied)

Socialist
- 17 (33.3%)
Green
- 8 (15.7%)
Peace and Freedom
- 2 (3.9%)
Democratic
- 1 (2%)
Transhumanist
- 11 (21.6%)
Libertarian
- 8 (15.7%)
Republican
- 2 (3.9%)
Constitution
- 2 (3.9%)

Total Members Voted: 50


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Lagslayer

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2685 on: December 27, 2013, 02:58:12 pm »

I changed a couple of answers on the dialect quiz that I wasn't sure about the first time. The map was mostly the same. The NE was a bit more yellow as opposed to blue. The N and NW were more yellow-blue as opposed to yellow-orange. My hotspot was mostly the same, being centered around the middle of the eastern seaboard and a bit on Kentucky and Tennessee. It labeled my 3 cities in Virginia, which is a bit closer than before, which was North Carolina.

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2686 on: December 28, 2013, 12:26:16 pm »

No, Iiiii'm pretty sure it's y'all, since ya'll would be, I dunno, a contraction for you will?
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2687 on: December 28, 2013, 04:22:15 pm »

Fucking NYT doesn't even know their etymology. It's ya'll, not y'all.

no?

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2688 on: December 29, 2013, 03:32:03 am »

It's been a while since I dug into this, but to my knowledge the dialect that originated that contraction contracted "you" to "ya". "Ya all", in the same sense as "youse guys". Modern logic dictates that it's a contraction of "you all" (which it is) because that "ya" doesn't really persist anywhere but in verbal accents. Eh, it doesn't matter overmuch, though, because I'm not dead set. But I'm inclined to trust a linguistic specialist who investigated the history of it more than "common sense" (when the same sort of thinking does things like trying to kill the Oxford comma) or some random blog. :|
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2689 on: December 29, 2013, 04:12:27 am »

The dialect contracted "you" to "ya", but common usage doesn't anymore. Common usage is language.

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2690 on: December 29, 2013, 10:18:29 am »

I dunno man, the entire internet seems to think it's y'all, including university sites and Wikipedia, not just "some random blog".
(and when I say the entire internet, I mean the first page of google results :p)
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2691 on: December 29, 2013, 10:57:21 am »

Dunno how old the test results shtick is, but i got this:
ENFP

Extrovert(1%)  iNtuitive(62%)  Feeling(25%)  Perceiving(6)%


Apparently the "Champion", though I could go either way as an INFP / "Healer" too.

And yeah, these Myers-Briggs things are pretty simplistic - i don't doubt if I'm in a depressive funk then my answers would probably be INTJ or INTP.

« Last Edit: December 29, 2013, 11:02:48 am by Reudh »
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« Reply #2692 on: December 29, 2013, 06:55:36 pm »

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2693 on: December 30, 2013, 06:24:26 pm »

I'd say that's accurate, considering I live in that area :P

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2694 on: January 01, 2014, 06:44:49 pm »

The Social attitude test (Shouldn't these tests be put on the first post? Took some time to dig up.)

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I guess it's quite ok, though I don't think I have a problem with religion, and I have no clue how to interpret that I'm a considerate radical centrist with few strong convictions.
Sounds like a bunch of conflicting stuff.
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2695 on: January 01, 2014, 06:54:44 pm »

(Shouldn't these tests be put on the first post? Took some time to dig up.)
Probably, but I can't be bothered.
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2696 on: January 01, 2014, 08:02:11 pm »

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2697 on: January 05, 2014, 07:11:14 am »

Right o' chaps, the question for all time: How northern are you?

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10% northern
That's somewhere around Bournemouth.

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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2698 on: January 05, 2014, 07:16:01 am »

0% northern.
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Re: Shit, let's be reminded that MSH hates the New York Times.
« Reply #2699 on: January 05, 2014, 07:30:30 am »

35% northern.
That's somewhere around Oxford.

I have no idea what it means to be "northern" in Britain. Nor do I know what an oatcake is.
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