Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?

starting this thread on every msg board I read btw brb w/results

you misinterpreted the joke in a ridiculous way, and are now insisting that since comedy is often intentionally ridiculous, the more ridiculous interpretation must be the correct one. that is your "logic."

If it's so ridiculous, how come so many people (35% of the answerers in the poll above) have interpreted it as "Viking of sleep"? Are 35% of all people ridiculous? Anyway, my point was not that interpreting Ralph's line as "Viking of sleep" is ridiculous, just that saying "it's ridiculous" is not a good argument against comedy.

It feels as though the "Viking in sleep" hardliners are kinda like those Victorian imperialists who thought White European Culture is the only correct form of culture, and all the other cultures were simply ridiculous and wrong.

Are 35% of all people ridiculous?

oh at least

well the thing about the internet is that you never know how many participants are from America and speak English as a first language, like the Simpsons writing staff and its primary audience, and how many people come from a different background like you do.

Are you arguing that 35% can't be ridiculous? xxp

If it's so ridiculous, how come so many people (35% of the answerers in the poll above) have interpreted it as "Viking of sleep"? Are 35% of all people ridiculous?

YES

does Finland hold elections based on the "the biggest minority opinion wins" system?

Anyway, my point was not that interpreting Ralph's line as "Viking of sleep" is ridiculous, just that saying "it's ridiculous" is not a good argument against comedy.

No, I think you're deliberately misinterpreting this, at this stage (it must be said, there are hints of previous here). It's a ridiculous interpretation of the line, the line is not 'ridiculous'

well the thing about the internet is that you never know how many participants are from America and speak English as a first language, like the Simpsons writing staff and its primary audience, and how many people come from a different background like you do.

― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

there are all sorts of problems w/ this

It feels as though the "Viking in sleep" hardliners are kinda like those Victorian imperialists who thought White European Culture is the only correct form of culture, and all the other cultures were simply ridiculous and wrong.

this is OTM though, B UEBER ALLES

well the thing about the internet is that you never know how many participants are from America and speak English as a first language, like the Simpsons writing staff and its primary audience, and how many people come from a different background like you do.

As far as I know, all the "Viking of sleep" supporters in this thread are native English speakers, except me and Dyao. One even teaches English, as noted above.

I love how after that post some dude made the other post, pretty good B+ imo

uhm I would consider my self a native english speaker xp

"b-voters = white supremacists"

- tuomas

dyao it makes so much more sense now that i know english isn't your first language ;)

uhm I would consider my self a native english speaker xp

no a-voter is a native english speaker imo

cld b eithr

u motherfukkers imma start postin like lamp from now on

"Imo"? That doesn't sound like English to me... And where's your punctuation?

if you are an a-voter and english is your only language, congrats, you speak zero languages fluently

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so just the 2 most vocal and frequent posters supporting that opinion aren't native English speakers. maybe you guys are giving your crew a bad name tbh.

all I gotta say is that as sum1 who is bilingual maybe Im more used to using context to figure things out ~shrug~

I don't know if a thread has been this awesome since the original DMB thread. MAYBE Madonna vs Janet Jackson.

man fuck that queen's english is the only english stance tbh have you guys never heard of world englishes I Think Ur a Ethnocentrist

all I gotta say is that as sum1 who is bilingual maybe Im more used to using context to figure things out ~shrug~

― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), 30 April 2010 14:28 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

brazen, i like it.

isdgtt

some dude under your definition the music you like to listen to is made by non-native english speakers ~shrug~

It feels as though the "Viking in sleep" hardliners are kinda like those Victorian imperialists who thought White European Culture is the only correct form of culture, and all the other cultures were simply ridiculous and wrong.

― Tuomas, Friday, April 30, 2010 10:17 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's more like if Victorian imperialist dared to think they could interpret Victorian art and entertainment more accurately than people from different cultures.

stop ~shrug~ging, it merely underlines ur lack of confidence in ur basic verbalization skills imo

liking =/ correctly interpreting

you might as well just throw all your doestesvksy and tolstoy translations in the trash then no use in studying them imo

fuck flaubert it was nice to know you

it's more like if Victorian imperialist dared to think they could interpret Victorian art and entertainment more accurately than people from different cultures.

What about the group A Victorians in this thread?

later goethe I cant understand you like a native ger-man can man why even try

this is not a discussion between native-english-speaking and others, this is a discussion between RONG abt RALPH and otherwise

QED.

the "group A Victorians" are more likely idiots, I'm actually giving you 2 a lot of credit that stupidity isn't your (only) problem here

sorry darragh I know joyce is really influential and all but fuck him outside of ireland imo (im jealous only you have the rights to correct & accurate intepretations about him)

couldn't give a fuck about the pompous self aggrandizing fraud tbh

It's a ridiculous interpretation of the line, the line is not 'ridiculous'

^yes

Tuomas, you're arguing that people who think the world is round should pay homage to people who think it's crobozoid.

you might as well just throw all your doestesvksy and tolstoy translations in the trash then no use in studying them imo

― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:33 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if i was taking a course on Tolstoy and a classmate from Russia understood a sentence differently than I did, I'd probably doubt myself a little, is all I'm saying.

I guess I should throw all my rap records out the window after all these years I thought I knew what they were talking about but I guess I never will ~sigh~

Yes, those two are perfectly equivalent.

(x-post to Granny)

don't take it all to heart, you're just wrong about this one line, that's all. but you are wrong about it.

it is important that you are aware that you are wrong

I am bilingual, but have stopped attempting to analyze German comedy (mostly because it is Tuomastically literal and thus unfunny).

ebonics, fuck, it's hard to know what they r sayin sometimes cause I'm not a victorian imperialist interpreting victorian entertainment and culture

For us to be "wrong", there should be some sort of objective measuring stick against which to reflect our arguments. If you've discovered such a stick, do tell us more about it.