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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 10 Re: bootstrapping quidditas ipsa Jackie #210631 04/25/13 03:30 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,936 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,936 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Yes, and look at the history of the DRC from Leopold to now. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bootstrapping quidditas ipsa Jackie #210641 04/26/13 10:56 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie OP Carpal Tunnel OP Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I'm almost totally ignorant about that; I just know it has been, and is, terrible. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lootstripping quidditas ipsa LukeJavan8 #210647 04/27/13 02:51 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Which does not imply that one out of over 200 tribes' morals has decided the course of history. Where in this tribe stealing was an acknowleged virtue, there have been many robbers of all colors and continents that influenced the course of Congo's history. Still do. (but I am stepping out of the language comfort zone) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lootstripping quidditas ipsa BranShea #210652 04/28/13 04:10 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Gee BranShe, if language has a comfort zone then language can't get its job done. The term "politically correct" is semantically self-damning and to all who think; self-demeaning. And remember; all in-groups rationalize, modify, excuse, and sometimes exalt, any violations of the mores of the larger group if perpetrated by members of their own in-group. [How otherwise could money-grubbing lawyers and politicians and doctors get rich?] Usage. The term "Culture" can apply to the self-aggrandising beliefs of two renegade bank robbers as well as the collective self-aggrandising beliefs of everyone else in the World. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lootstripping quidditas ipsa jenny jenny #210660 04/28/13 07:25 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Language does not have a comfort zone, language ìs a comfort zone. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lootstripping quidditas ipsa BranShea #210663 04/29/13 02:02 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie OP Carpal Tunnel OP Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky How cozy! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wie gemutlich Jackie #210664 04/29/13 12:37 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh language is a comfort zone ... I agree with Burroughs, "language is a virus from outer space" ... and culture is a pedestrian zone ... Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wie gemutlich zmjezhd #210678 04/30/13 08:25 AM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague - I only meant the comfort zone of language against the discomfort zone of politics and opinions. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wie so? BranShea #210679 04/30/13 01:32 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh I only meant the comfort zone of language against the discomfort zone of politics and opinions. I knew what you meant, Branshea, and so did other folks. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wie so? zmjezhd #210683 04/30/13 04:17 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Originally Posted By: zmjezhd I only meant the comfort zone of language against the discomfort zone of politics and opinions. I knew what you meant, Branshea, and so did other folks. So did I, BranShe. Obviously this is not a forum for political debate. But our love of words and language is meaningless if we don't speak out against those who would censor our words to advance their own political agendas. A "comfort zone" with fay words is a pacifier without milk. 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