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cookies taste better with funneh ([info]cookie_love) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-10 22:34:00


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I was checking my friends page over at LJ, when at the top I spot a post by nyjoder over at stupid_free. After some link checking, I think I've got the gist of why "twatwaffle" has his knickers in a twist.

You see, stupid_free linked to a post over at thequestionclub where njyoder was being a dick informing the OP that her icon was most misleading. It didn't show, in his tactful words, "how fat you truly are." Needless to say, there is wank (and a mod smackdown), which is why it was on stupid_free.

But that's not the only thing that made it to the community, as everyone's favorite long-winded wonder shows up himself. He's determine to help the stupid people of the world understand the true meaning of "misleading":

mis·lead /mɪsˈlid/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mis-leed] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, -led, -lead·ing. –verb (used with object) 1. to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray. 2. to lead into error of conduct, thought, or judgment. –verb (used without object) 3. to be misleading; tend to deceive: vague directions that often mislead

Clearly, people with icons of anime characters and animals are intending to deceive people into think that they're not actually live human beings! And just look at all the people who fell into the deception...all, 0 of them. And people using real pictures of themselves on the internet that deliberately try to hide their ugliness? Not deceptive at all. People never try to do that anyway. Prediction: many stupid, unrelated and uncreative insults to this post, because they lack the ability to defend their ignorance of the word 'misleading.'


Did anyone defend their ignorance of misleading? I honestly don't know. Did everyone and their brother poke/mock the troll? You bet your sweet ass they did.


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Re: Talk about misleading...
[info]greenling
2007-05-12 06:36 am UTC (link)
Perceived grammatical-ness, or lack of, is part of language, and used to study language just like every other part of it.

Conservative elements of culture exist on the same level as radical ones, and are no more or less artificial.

You're right; those standards are artificial. So is using the standard of "what do native speakers actually say". So is language. Descriptivism is mostly a way of making sure we don't ignore a bunch of things that contribute to our understanding of language, not a support group for people who were horribly scarred by their seventh-grade English teacher.

Thanks, I've been wanting to bitch at someone about that.

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Re: Talk about misleading...
[info]njyoder
2007-05-14 04:49 am UTC (link)
It's not artificial, because it relies on how the language naturally changes within a given population. It's not as if people in general are making any deliberate effort to control their changes in made to language.

The criteria for correctness is an analysis of people from the outside looking in and see _the way things already are_, instead of groups of prescriptivist ilk diving in and declaring "this is the way things will be made by us." Deliberate declaration of change is what makes it artificial.

In any case, I probably won't respond because I'm receiving a flood of comments from this and other posts.

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