Things that make you concerned for humanity

[TheSlamma]

Get with the times. Originally from the British, saying "sort of" as a meaningless place holder in sentence after sentence has sort of replaced "like."

If you haven't noticed it, listen for it in media interviews. You'll sort of be astounded.

Another one is beginning sentences with "so." Special props to those who begin sentences with, "So, like . . ."

So then I was like this and then he was like that and then I was like Ohhhmyyyy godddddd and then we were literally like wow.

No brit was ever that brain dead.

 

[Perknose]

That's interesting that you point that out. As of late, I'm fairly conscious of my use of "So," in text/written messages. I do it on purpose, especially in conversations with people I don't know as well.

To me, "So, what are you doing tonight?" comes across more friendly/playfully/suggestively than just "What are you doing tonight?"

It's both painful and hilarious to me that, while discussing your enthusiasm for the gratuitous use of "so", you misused "as" in a sentence where you could have properly used "so" (or, most properly, "that.")

 

[jdoggg12]

It's both painful and hilarious to me that, while discussing your enthusiasm for the gratuitous use of "so", you misused "as" in a sentence where you could have properly used "so" (or, most properly, "that.")

It was used as part of a comparative clause so, it works. No?

 

[Perknose]

It was used as part of a comparative clause so, it works. No?

If you'd put "as well as some other people", then, yes. But you can't say it's a comparative clause when you didn't compare it to anyone else.

Look, my cavil is piddly-shite to most. Few care at all, and no one here would even notice. Carry on, my good man!

It's the same with your decision to incorporate "so" into your written language. It can even be used as a stand alone, dramatically rhetorical precursor, as in, "So, Dr. Evil, we meet again." So*, do as you wish.

I was raised in a different time and place, so* the slacker devolution of my mother tongue literally hurts me every time I hear it, which is frequently. Linguistically, I'm like a dog who hears the dog whistle you guys can't, and reflexively starts howling.

OoooooOOOoooooo!










*These are the most proper uses of so. In them, "so" refers back immediately preceding statements.

 

[Humpy]

If you'd put "as well as some other people", then, yes. But you can't say it's a comparative clause when you didn't compare it to anyone else.

Null Comparative?

 

[zinfamous]

I'm more concerned about the total lack of ethics in business esp by internet companies like amazon than by the way valley teens talk

dang, what did Amazon do now to prompt your 25-post burst in no more than 6 days?

 

[Perknose]

Null Comparative?

Ha! I thought this might come up. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Formal null comparatives generally employ comparative adjectives, with what they are compared to being left intentionally vague. It's an advertising trope, as in "Samsung TVs are better."

jdoggg12's sentence is not a null comparative, it's just a (very minor) grammatical mistake. He misused "as" when he could (and should) have used "that" or "so."

 

[Jeff7]

Why? If IQ's are [74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 160, 160, 180, 190] is the correct way to guage the population's intelligence median (78) instead of mean (119)? (I forgot all my college stats stuff, haha)

Half the population is dumber than the average person. That tells you everything.

I'm not saying it's correct or not, I'm just pedantically going by the "half the population is dumber than average" bit, because I'm contractually obligated to do so.

If the IQs are 120, 119, 118, 116, 100, 85, half are not below average.


...and your distribution there is something of an unsettling spread anyway.
Average and median aren't adequate to analyze that data set. Gauss is surely spinning in his grave.
(Someone really needs to put magnets and coils of wire around all these spinning corpses. Gauss would be particularly appropriate for that.)

 

[disappoint]

Overheard on a political show while I was making dinner, "Donald Trump has literally driven a truck right through American politics."

Can't wait until they change the definition of literally due to popular misuse. If decades from now you see an old man throw his goggles-monitor at the wall in disgust that was...eh..will be me. You'll know it's me if he shouts "Ze goggles! zey literally do nothing!"

 

[bradly1101]

Can't wait until they change the definition of literally due to popular misuse. If decades from now you see an old man throw his goggles-monitor at the wall in disgust that was...eh..will be me. You'll know it's me if he shouts "Ze goggles! zey literally do nothing!"

:biggrin:

I don't know why, but it just feels uncomfortable to me. It's not unlike the feeling I get when "words" like awesomesauce get added to the Oxford dictionary:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/08/new-words-update-manspreading-mic-drop/

 

[SphinxnihpS]

If you'd put "as well as some other people", then, yes. But you can't say it's a comparative clause when you didn't compare it to anyone else.

Look, my cavil is piddly-shite to most. Few care at all, and no one here would even notice. Carry on, my good man!

It's the same with your decision to incorporate "so" into your written language. It can even be used as a stand alone, dramatically rhetorical precursor, as in, "So, Dr. Evil, we meet again." So*, do as you wish.

I was raised in a different time and place, so* the slacker devolution of my mother tongue literally hurts me every time I hear it, which is frequently. Linguistically, I'm like a dog who hears the dog whistle you guys can't, and reflexively starts howling.

OoooooOOOoooooo!






*These are the most proper uses of so. In them, "so" refers back immediately preceding statements.

People notice. Other people, so don't get hired. ...or at least, as hired.

 

[Exterous]

So then I was like this and then he was like that and then I was like Ohhhmyyyy godddddd and then we were literally like wow.

I can tell you are old because you think they say 'Oh my god' still. So they like totally only say 'Oh Em Gee' now gramps

I was raised in a different time and place, so* the slacker devolution of my mother tongue literally hurts me every time I hear it, which is frequently.

Speaking of another time the use of the word 'yore' seems to be increasing. Sadly it has risen from discarded ashes as a third version of 'your' and is not being used correctly

 

[Ackmed]

All this English talk makes me think someone here can help me with my English course... it's kicking my ass.

But things that make me concerned for humanity (short list);
1. Safe places
2. Man buns
3. Skinny jeans
4. Vapers