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

just wanted to talk about the word emphasis after watching it on youtube

ralph says "SLEEP! Thats where I'M a VIking" - I used to hear this pattern all the time with my kids, it indicates that they think they are, or at least are pretending to be something ( I'M a RObot, I'M a COOL girl, I'M a MONster ): equal emphasis on I'm and Viking, implying equivalence.

compare that to the metaphorical use, which would usually be "i'm a MONSTER", "i'm a VIKING", ie all the emphasis on the metaphor.

― tomofthenest, Friday, April 30, 2010 4:47 AM

But Ralph's voice isn't done by a real kid rather than an adult.

― Tuomas, Friday, April 30, 2010 4:58 AM

in all honesty, this is one of the greatest exchanges I've ever read

yeah Tuomas has really brought his "A" game to this thread

^^^ SB'd myself for that

Actually I was living overseas because my father was a diplomatic representative of the GREAT COUNTRY OF THE U.S. of A. to lesser nations, but nice try.

― congratulations (n/a), 30 April 2010 15:19 (23 minutes ago)

:) just tryin to widen this debate about a cartoon boy dreaming of being a viking tbh.

ftr I feed myself by trying to decipher what english-as-a-second-language kids are saying and writing, so ~shrug~

Explaining why you are right when you are wrong is NAGL.

Oh boy, a movie! That's where this guy is supposed to be a Viking god!

lmfao at the first comment

au contraire mon frere, sorry to break it to you but NAGL has been misused by generations of ILXORs, in fact it is used to describe a situation in basketball where a player forces a shot without getting a good look at the basket, hence it is 'not a [good look]', sorry to break it to you but you've been committing malapropisms for your entire ILX life

ftr I feed myself by trying to decipher what english-as-a-second-language kids are saying and writing, so ~shrug~

so you are hoping with this post that the next 100 posts will be people cracking wise about you not being good at your job and you getting even angrier instead of just joining in the lols - do I read you right?

I am a glutton for punishment ;_;

ralph says "SLEEP! Thats where I'M a VIking" - I used to hear this pattern all the time with my kids, it indicates that they think they are, or at least are pretending to be something ( I'M a RObot, I'M a COOL girl, I'M a MONster ): equal emphasis on I'm and Viking, implying equivalence.

This is a great point.

lol dyao you're a good sport

just feel that when you draw a pair of aces you go all in w/o hesitation that's all

good luck with that hand at the chess board

imma good sport....BASKETBALL!!!

looooooool

even if the B-truthers holding their 2-7 offsuit flop a full house you can't doubt yourself ~no regrets take it to the limit, one more time~

~winning is all I do, all I do is win~

I was using NAGL in its postralph form, ie 'to mean anything i wish, as long as ~35% of any given group agree.'

^^^ dyao essentially confessing that he & others have reg'd socks & stuffed the ballot box for this one

^^ is being a hermeneutical anarchist

ok we do NOT need to get into gender here guys

looool

This cat clearly owns sleep, and would never dream of being a Viking.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kXnVoQ9ZFkQ/SaIMmQRRLAI/AAAAAAAAHns/f5v6_vhjx8U/s400/sleep-viking.jpg

This cat is an A.

oh wait
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4pmUNQE7llI/Sxh7bbxUkrI/AAAAAAAAK1M/sreqUKf81-Q/s400/vikingKittens.jpg

~winning is all I do, all I do is win~

― going non-native (dyao), Friday, April 30, 2010 11:59 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as dj khaled himself would say, "we the viking"

don't give him ne ideas

let's not fall into the bilingual trap. i'm bilingual and on the side of right and justice and b.

re: cats never dreaming of being vikings

http://i.biblio.com/z/612/320/9780345320612.jpg

garfield is dead - a disembodied, haunted soul dreaming of being alive once more

garfield is dead - a disembodied, haunted soul dreaming of being alive a viking once more

that 9 lives book is really a more fucked up read than this thread, tbh

come play with maw maw

Yeah, pretty interesting how Bs are judgmental and As are open-minded.

― Fetchboy, Friday, 30 April 2010 13:38 (8 hours ago)

People who believe the moon-landing was faked are "open-minded" too.

this whole thing has been like a magic eye of a wolf and I've just seen the wolf

don't know how I could think b after seeing the wolf

people who believe the moon landing was faked are not open-minded. people who voted for ron paul feel like they're the only ones who have noticed the emperor's new clothes.

i am hopelessly unilingual and i'd die for option a. or option a with an academic openness to other interpretations.

was it ever satisfactorily explained why a) isn't already entailed by b)?
(other than vikings not being as awesome as we think they are)

I was trolling with my last couple posts btw

I usually never admit to trolling but those posts made me fell so fucking disgusted with myself

FEEL

people who believe the moon landing was faked are not open-minded. people who voted for ron paul feel like they're the only ones who have noticed the emperor's new clothes.

― A B C, Friday, April 30, 2010 10:29 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

that's why I put open-minded in quotes. They paint themselves as open-minded but really they're just idiots.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

and there it is

VICTORY

i wouldn't be upset if i still thought of this as a simple difference of opinion.

it's a small victory that the margin is bigger here than it was on other boards, but it should be even bigger

xpost

I notice that subjunctive you used there.