Log In

Home
    - Create Journal
    - Update
    - Download

LiveJournal
    - News
    - Paid Accounts
    - Contributors

Customize
    - Customize Journal
    - Create Style
    - Edit Style

Find Users
    - Random!
    - By Region
    - By Interest
    - Search

Edit ...
    - Personal Info &
      Settings
    - Your Friends
    - Old Entries
    - Your Pictures
    - Your Password

Developer Area

Need Help?
    - Lost Password?
    - Freq. Asked
      Questions
    - Support Area



Faulty Premise ([info]faultypremise) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-04-17 10:40:00


Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
You call that a massacre? That's not a massacre...
Some people will wank about ANYTHING. I shouldn't be so surprised, considering the wank that happened over Hurricane Katrina.

However... Just so you all know, the incident at Virginia Tech is NOT a massacre, it's just a shooting.

And a quote from commenter spaceworrier: Pardon me, but a massacre implies something like gutting them alive at the same time and laughing and not being a complete nutjob. A massacre also usually involves a bunch of people, and it's not my fault that people can't use vocab properly these days.

Because, like, you know, these things are IMPORTANT and you plebeians should all be using proper English to describe horrific acts of violence.

Also, the follow-up of zomg I said something you didn't like! Complete with 'It's my journal and I'll cry if I want to' mentality.


(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]velvet_mace
2007-04-17 06:17 pm UTC (link)
*Trying hard to pretend this was really about the Boston Massacre (as the edit goes) and not anything as soulrendingly recent as oh, yesterday*

Why is it that people feel they have more insight into the proper use of the English language than thousands of professional writers over the last 50 years?

One day, hopefully soon, she's going to look back at this post and die repeatedly of embarassment. Claiming moral and intellectual supiriority while simultaniously showing herself to be insultingly insensitive, obtuse, and just plain incorrect -- that's a pretty large whammy to your repuation.

(Reply to this)


(Read comments) -

 
   
Privacy Policy - COPPA
Legal Disclaimer - Site Map