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i hope you have nightmarestaco man said:im gona frame it and put it above my bed so i can marvel at how great a subject english is : p
i hope you have nightmarestaco man said:im gona frame it and put it above my bed so i can marvel at how great a subject english is : p
IceBreaker said:KILL ENGLISH im so gonna burn my stimulus booklet after HSC. anyone with me?
to put it politely anywaySiReN said:English is a bitch
Much as I disdain the present 15140 etc. courses, and understand a bit of ceremonial cleansing would be in order, could you guys be a bit more environmentally friendly and return them to the school so that they can be reused?IceBreaker said:KILL ENGLISH im so gonna burn my stimulus booklet after HSC. anyone with me?
no the orginal thought was yours, that where i got it fromLhyviathan said:![]()
What an original thought, IceBreaker...
Nah, a mate of mine at Crestwood had a mass booklet burning...braad said:wtf? thats my mates picture.....i swear to god we did that n took the foto...unless u did the same thinghmmm...either way, anutha of those damned booklets DIES!!
ha!Vahl3 said:Assigning a gender connotation to the subject is pointless. You allocate a negative connotation to 'gay' and therefore imply homosexuals have a negative quality or are a negative quantity. This is neither constructive or conducive to social harmony. Subjecting any group or individual to ridicule or alienation, whether directly or indirectly is irrelevant, any such behaviour is never appropriate and never acceptable and reveals that there is personal dissatisfaction or inner disharmony. Everyone has the right to dignity and through including unneccessary and judgemental associations you express prejudice and therefore encourage prejudice and discrimination, which when enforced through law contributes to the loss of the rights of everyone.
haha!Captian pi said:Firstly, it's not a "gender connotation". He didn't say 'English was female; ergo, it's lacking certain qualities which would hold it in my esteem.' If it's what you describe, it's a 'sexual orientational [sic]' connotation.
But what you describe is flawed. It's even worse than saying that the statement "If someone is good, he will be rewarded" discriminates against women. Saying something, especially an obviously non-human thing, is 'gay' connotes no negativity towards homosexuals. If you haven't heard, a word can have many different senses (the word 'set' has 430!). The fact that 'gay' has negative connotations in some contexts, whereas in others it refers to one's homosexuality, does not suggest that the former usage impacts on the second. Perhaps, your point is valid if I say imperatively "Stop being gay." to a human, as there are undertones of homosexuality being a negative attribute. (Admittedly, I do not use this adjective negatively, but I must protest because I am on an intellectual power-trip.)
However, the inductive step from there to all other uses of the word is tenuous. In the clause "English is truly gay" the sense 'gay', in this context, has been entirely divorced from the sense 'gay' in "Gay Marriage".
Just the same as I can call someone a 'black sheep' or refer to the Christian antichrist as 'The Prince of Darkness' while, without loss of consistency, refer to a dark-skinned person as "black" or "dark-skinned".
Such obsessive political correctness impoverishes the language to an inhibited contortion of verbosity (like my caricature ergo, it's lacking certain qualities which would hold it in my esteem.'), rather than clear and simple prose.
You actually burnt it?? I hope you didn't burn the house down in the process. *gets bright idea* You could have just put it through the paper shredder................Lhyviathan said:![]()
What an original thought, IceBreaker...
ours was...it was just...totally worth all the shit we were put thru...well not really, but still, the booklet was a symbol of the oppression forced by the evil trinity (teachers, skool, teachers...that makes 3Lhyviathan said:Nah, a mate of mine at Crestwood had a mass booklet burning...
It must have been a truly beautiful sight... *sniffles*