hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

imho mortdecai < def not the same etymology as mordechai

literally has almost the same letters cmon

i think i knew who the war nerd was at one pt; it's just one of the exile/pando dudes (obv)

The name "Mordechai" is of uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Marduku attested as the name of officials in the Persian court in thirty texts (the Persepolis Texts) from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might have served as the prototype for the biblical Mordecai.

The name is commonly interpreted as a theophoric name referring to the god Marduk with the understanding that it means "[servant/follower/devotee] of Marduk" in Aramaic. (The Book of Daniel contains similar accounts of Jews living in exile in Babylonia being assigned names relating to Babylonian gods.) Some suggest that as Marduk was a war-god, the expression "[servant] of Marduk" may simply denote a warrior - the popular translation of "warrior" is commonly found in naming dictionaries. Others note that Marduk was the creator in Babylonian mythology whence the term might have been understood by Jews to mean simply "[servant] of God".

mort seems more latin mortis related

ty for your knowledge, I will make sure to pronounce it with a hard 't' so you don't get confused

update: i tried reading this and i couldnt

― no (Lamp), Tuesday, February 24, 2015

this was my experience at the time iirc i.e. ~what are you even saying man~ but people seemed to like it \o_0/

i think it's a political thing like a defense against conservative opinion that snarkiness is somehow bad i don't think ppl were digging it for stylistic reasons (but i could be wrong)

labored over concision

hmm isn't this 'writing'?

http://www.bigfatpandamusic.com/wp-content/gallery/general-gallery/dancing-panda-fastest.gif

hmm isn't this 'writing'?

― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:51 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

If you conceive of writing as rule-based and running through a checklist sure *shrug*

Don't question me man I read a LOT of thinkpieces I know a good one when I see one :|

― 龜, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new borad description ?

its about ethics in tabloids

i like on smarm, i just thing it lacks a data angle

that is very... scientific of you

― iyo iyo un day (how's life), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:48 AM (4 hours ago)

fp'd you for this

I'm not the one with a goddamn cartoon dingdong in my dn. fp'd in return.

fair

fp'd you both

=P

i think i am going to email my mom the smarm article to see what she thinks of it. she uses that word in the way scocca describes more or less and i think she arrived at this habit independently

I think I am going to email your mom too

can you ask yr mom to stop emailing me pls

i am sorta torn about the article. i think you can have a keep it positive attitude without the sanctimony/evasiveness/dishonesty or the constant appeals to authority. like bam said, i generally prefer more descriptive literary criticism to "takedowns," for instance. snarkiness seems more reflexive than critical. cynicism can be its own kind of complacency.

i loved on smarm i think it is a useful tool for thinking about public discourse these days

I knew someone in high school with the last name Biddle. Facebook tells me she's a Gavin DeGraw fangirl now. (There's probably a name for them, like DeGraw-dogs or something.)

i like the article, the only problem is that "smarm" is already a word and it doesn't mean what scocca was trying to make it mean though in principle i am all for single-handedly attempting to change the definitions of words through sheer bloody-mindedness

brb calling the mothership

re: gawker dickholes, i think it just goes with the territory of tabloids/readers of tabloids, the whole business is about treating other people like prey. my great uncle was the editor of a British tabloid back in the day and he'd make the gawker dickholes of ilx weep in shame for failing their potential. i mean, there are threads on this board designed to lure people in just to smack them around and laugh at their expense. i'd say it all fits together pretty nicely, no reason not to be real about it.

😎

Trending on Kinja:

I didn't always hate Pikachu. Actually, I used to like him. But one day, both the anime and the games decided to make Pikachu worse by progressively making his design thinner and thinner. Gone are the days of the best Pikachu, chubby Pikachu. Since then, Pikachu has only gotten more and more awful for me. For starters, Pikachu probably works wonders for making The Pokémon Company and Game Freak money, which is great for them, but it also means they're prone to plaster Pikachu on everything. It's hard not to be barraged by Pikachu's constant presence if you're a Pokémon fan, and it sucks.

i dont really know anything about pokemon but i love it/support its culture

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/5a734ca9-f1ea-43c4-8ff8-a1b1b46e2fd0/98d3306f5720f6cd1f2416a220aa7a83/res/b901a510-d093-4a5b-8cb9-96b7103c8d6f/skitch.png

i dont really know anything about pokemon but i love it/support its culture

Let me introduce you to Pocket Monster. A Nick Denton production.

Anyway, Gawker has become a less edgy BuzzFeed.

I don't know why I scrolled all the way to the comments on the St. Vincent kisses model Defamer post, but they were pretty much on par with the comments I'd expect on the NYTimes site or ESPN - guess Gawker is big media now.

http://gawker.com/white-kid-caught-ecstatically-singing-nigga-by-coache-1697520011

lol

that's my cousin. he spells it "Jase" but whatever.

he was singing "figga"

tbh I do that sometimes while alone at home and my cat gives me the side-eye, although he'd probably shit on my kitchen table if he caught me singing or rapping anything by Drake

lol j0rdan

a discriminating cat

hopefully this white teen will make it out ok................

which kid? the coachella dude or the gawker author?

i'm sure they'll both be fine ;)

J0rd can't believe you fell for a Mordy bait post in 2015 : \

llol u can't pin this embarrassment on me

i made it out ok!

ninja, he made it

are you not allowed to say nigga when singing along w/songs????? i thought u were

I'm not even mad at the kid in this story. He was at a festival, having fun, just singing along with a song he liked.