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

"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.

ya I got one

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.

~sigh~ think I'll just stick to my vampire weekend records at least it's from a culture I am a part of

dyao you're trolling for sb's right now, do you understand that much dude?

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.

So because someone has a stronger, more absolute opinion on something, that somehow makes his opinion more correct? How does that work?

65% are more sure that they're right than 35%, who are wrong anyway.

Because I can point you to people who have very strong opinions on what is "right", let's see if you agree with them.

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'm not sure it was all about that, but yeah that's an unnecessary line imo.

troll gets trolled story at 11

No, that doesn't make them more correct, why are you shifting the argument? I'm explaining to you why A people appear so evangelical to you.

xxp you do realising you're on the same side of a minority opinion with truongmos, tho? it doesn't bother that dude, that due is always ice-cool, so take a leaf out of his book. watch and learn.

ehh the argument is borderline racist imo & there are few things that piss me off more than racism (my SB record will support that)

some dude was out of order imo. B still the better answer tho.

No, that doesn't make them more correct, why are you shifting the argument? I'm explaining to you why A people appear so evangelical to you.

You haven't explained why A people are "100% sure it is wrong" though. How can they be so sure? Where does their entitlement come from?

hipsters, accusations of racism, this thread now has it all

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Yo! Hold up! Time out! TIME OUT! Y'all take a chill! Ya need to cool that shit out! And that's the double truth, Ruth!

There's about 767 posts explaining that, Tuomas. You're just unwilling to accept the arguments.