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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I love how after that post some dude made the other post, pretty good B+ imo
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
uhm I would consider my self a native english speaker xp
"b-voters = white supremacists"
- tuomas
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao it makes so much more sense now that i know english isn't your first language ;)
― vikings: name your reasons why they are so bad and hated (call all destroyer), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
no a-voter is a native english speaker imo
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
cld b eithr
― plax (ico), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
u motherfukkers imma start postin like lamp from now on
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"Imo"? That doesn't sound like English to me... And where's your punctuation?
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
if you are an a-voter and english is your only language, congrats, you speak zero languages fluently
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if a thread has been this awesome since the original DMB thread. MAYBE Madonna vs Janet Jackson.
― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), 30 April 2010 14:28 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark
brazen, i like it.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
isdgtt
― the poster below this is an A-voter (cozen), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
some dude under your definition the music you like to listen to is made by non-native english speakers ~shrug~
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
stop ~shrug~ging, it merely underlines ur lack of confidence in ur basic verbalization skills imo
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
liking =/ correctly interpreting
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 30 April 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck flaubert it was nice to know you
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
What about the group A Victorians in this thread?
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
QED.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
couldn't give a fuck about the pompous self aggrandizing fraud tbh
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― oh boy, luriqua's house! that's where M.I.A.'s dyking! (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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~
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, those two are perfectly equivalent.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(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.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it is important that you are aware that you are wrong
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I am bilingual, but have stopped attempting to analyze German comedy (mostly because it is Tuomastically literal and thus unfunny).
― Three Word Username, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ebonics, fuck, it's hard to know what they r sayin sometimes cause I'm not a victorian imperialist interpreting victorian entertainment and culture
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ya I got one
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They're not equivalent to you, but they're equivalent to a B person such as myself. A is completely ridiculous, I am 100% sure it is wrong. You're not 100% B is wrong, because it makes a lot of sense.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
~sigh~ think I'll just stick to my vampire weekend records at least it's from a culture I am a part of
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao you're trolling for sb's right now, do you understand that much dude?
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
So because someone has a stronger, more absolute opinion on something, that somehow makes his opinion more correct? How does that work?
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
65% are more sure that they're right than 35%, who are wrong anyway.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Because I can point you to people who have very strong opinions on what is "right", let's see if you agree with them.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
darraghmac you know I've been pretty cool on this thread but sorry I just got really offended at some dude's "english motherfucker, do you speak it" argument & I say this as a guy who rarely loses his cool, ever
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not sure it was all about that, but yeah that's an unnecessary line imo.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Friday, 30 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
troll gets trolled story at 11
― iatee, Friday, 30 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link