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hallidae ([info]hallidae) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-21 09:13:00


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"Worth Mocking!" "Is not!" "Is too!"
I know, I know, wank from [info]mock_the_stupid is like shooting ducks in a barrel of honey, but still-

A post is made, mocking a Ugandan AIDS education pamphlet for including what would seem to us to be really obvious information but apparently...isn't to them.

Many commentors think the poster has gone to the wrong place, and aren't really seeing anything worth pointing and LOLing at, considering the actual AIDS education situation in Uganda.

Mod Opalcat, however, isn't at all happy with the people criticizing her decision that it's mockworthy, and after arguing with a handful of commentors in aforelinked threads, posts a comments-locked modpost:

10:32 pm - MTS is not PC. And it isn't going to be.

If you can't live with that, please don't let the door hit ya.

The overkill PC whinging is really fucking tiring. We get it already. Get over it or leave. Honestly.


This brings more comments to the original post, mostly by people venting what they couldn't say in the modpost.

Of course, there are also others who think the mock is perfectly hilarious and are quick to call those who don't oversensitive PC pussies defend the post's merits.

Relatively small, but considering the modpost, I thought it had progressed beyond the clairvoyant stage.


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[info]doomsday
2007-06-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)
But "Christmas-Eve dinner" I would definitely hyphenate, to distinguish from a Christmas dinner cooked by Eve.

What?

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[info]chash
2007-06-21 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I would use words to do that, but maybe that's just me.

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-06-21 11:36 pm UTC (link)
And of course, "Eve dinner" is entirely grammatically inaccurate, since it'd obviously be "Eve's dinner" or "the dinner Eve cooked" or whatever.

The worst part is that if his real name is Clive Jones (as stated in his info), I would guess he's likely to be a native speaker, which means he really is just that much of a fucking twit.

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It makes my fancy linguist brain cry.
[info]lyssa
2007-06-22 01:19 am UTC (link)
I see your "what?" and raise you a "the fuckery."

See, if I were going to get it confused, I would think it was an annual Christmas dinner that included eating Eve (like Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner), which I maintain is the cooler interpretation anyway.

But then, I actually speak non-crazy-bitch English and process "Christmas Eve" as a phrase referring to that pesky night before Christmas rather than being cute and trying to force myself to process it as something else. Lol constituent phrases, indeed.

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