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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 6 of 10 1 2 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Re: "Game over, man!" jenny jenny #210760 05/05/13 04:22 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh What, mein Führer? Ja, ja, don't strike me, I will tell... I was waiting for Godwin's Law to apply. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Game over, man!" zmjezhd #210764 05/05/13 05:22 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 How silly. Are you offended by light humor? Do you not care about the engovernmentation of everyday words? "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." _______________________________ Salman Rushdie Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Game over, man!" jenny jenny #210774 05/06/13 07:52 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 Some humor is so light that it evaporates before you can get the meaning. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter The game is only over when you refuse to reply. BranShea #210813 05/06/13 08:40 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 Small humor has only one person to please but it is better if there is at least one other. But to abruptly change the topic of discussion by way of semantic turns is both rude and childish. Again... The NYC Board of Education concocted a list of 50 words not to be used by the company they hired to create achievement tests for their NYC students. Buffalo Shrdlu asked for my source and I gave it to him. Does anyone else have anything further to add? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. jenny jenny #210814 05/06/13 09:55 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand I was intrigued by Z's Segue. Godwins law in an ironic way delves into the PC/UN PC nature of how language can devolve into something quite disturbing Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. Jackie #210815 05/06/13 11:20 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Well, I have this to add: I have been a public school teacher for more than 25 years, I can see pretty easily why those words were "banned" from the achievement tests. I'm not going to make a list, but one only needs to think a little while about each one, and I think understanding might dawn. Does that make it right? Does that make it wrong? Yes, and yes. And no, and no. But what it does make it is thoughtful. Knowing that when a child is expected to do well on a test, you don't hit them with a bunch of things which might bother them very much. I think there are plenty of available topics leftover. And I enjoyed this conversation more when it was about morality, prior to its derailing into the PC quagmire. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. jenny jenny #210821 05/07/13 11:12 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 Does anyone else have anything further to add? Sure. I'd like to add that topics have a tendency to meander from here to there all the time. Nothing rude about it. But..I would like in discussion subjects that the original topic title would be contained all through the thread. ( no mini discussions in the topic-box). (I've asked for this before because I don't take email notifications, lose the topic this way and after all it reminds us clearly what started the discussion). Banned words... could they invent a more positive approach? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. BranShea #210824 05/07/13 04:59 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Oh, BranShea. I'd like ham and cheese on rye with butter (no mayo), but they just have so many things at my local deli... I never seem to buy that. ******* A discussion that went from "morality" to "Pc -vs- nonPC" didn't meander very far... it just went next door to see if that swing set is any more fun! ******* It should be easy enough to add a field here to make it "the original thread title" which, created at the beginning, is unchangable... in addition to the "Subject" one we have now. It would require a complete database rebuild... which would probably take this board offline for a few days... Last edited by musick; 05/07/13 05:01 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. jenny jenny #210826 05/07/13 05:32 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago It seems a lot like a topic list for the "Nightly News". I guess those actual words are used, but usually in such a general way. Yet, I suppose the individual experience will be immediately drawn out by the mere mention of those words. There must be some study revealing that experiences with these "descriptives" are so personal so as to be distracting and therefore become "results skewers". The same reason the "Nightly News" wants them *in. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The game is only over when you refuse to reply. musick #210827 05/07/13 07:21 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 You are right musick, next door is almost the closest from here to there you can get but some threads go all around the block. I don't consider it rude. And what are a few days seen from the perspective of eternity? Last edited by BranShea; 05/08/13 11:51 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 6 of 10 1 2 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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