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Nom de Plume said:
'Infer' is not synonymous with 'imply'. You do not 'infer to', you 'infer from'. Moreover, you cannot be both a mucker and a smartass; trying to do both only makes you look like more of a mucker.
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You are correct. However wrongly the two have become interchangeable. Wrongly so but that is what it is IMO. The English language is constantly evolving wrong or right.

Suck it up.
 
Sadie said:
You are correct. However wrongly the two have become interchangeable. Wrongly so but that is what it is IMO. The English language is constantly evolving wrong or right.

Suck it up.
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Interesting perspective you've got there. I've never been an advocate of prescriptive grammar myself, only using it out of force of habit from my education. Descriptive grammar—the way language is used, rather than how it should be used has always seemed less dictatorial and arbitrary, and thus more appealing, to me.

But it's a shame that you apply this notion only to language that does not conform to prescription, as with the confused use of 'infer' and 'imply', and simply cast off as pretentious and haughty any use of language that rigidly conform to prescription. The implication is that your language is somehow special and exempt from criticism, yet mine is opprobrious and deserving of criticism. This is a form of bigotry and is as stupid and arbitrary as any other.

The standard for your language seems to be "anything goes" and if anyone takes umbrage with it they should "suck it up". Why, therefore, can anything not go with my own language without you being able to not, as you say, "suck it up"?
 
Sammy G said:
I'd never have a drink with you.
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Good. I prefer to drink alone, anyway. I don't drink to fraternise and confab with other drunks about inane, trivial bullshit. It only ever ends badly when I'm drunk and surrounded by other drunks.

Oh, but I do think you'd love to take some good mandies together. Freeloading bastard! Lol, jk.
 
The autism is strong in this one <3
(Source: none, just a hunch)

Nom de Plume said:
Cooking with alcohol? Wow, this is news to me. I always thought you just drank it. It must be a cultural thing.
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I can't remember 100%, but didn't you emigrate to the US? Where from?
 
lurching said:
The autism is strong in this one <3
(Source: none, just a hunch)



I can't remember 100%, but didn't you emigrate to the US? Where from?
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I have dual US-India citizenship. I'm originally from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. However, upon my graduation from IIT in Kharagpur at 18 years old, I applied to and was accepted at U.C. Berkeley, California. Most of my time in America has been spent in California—primarily SF Bay Area and around Los Angeles. I'm not in America now, though. Currently, I sojourn in Dhaka, Bangladesh for a few weeks.

Why?
 
Nom de Plume said:
Interesting perspective you've got there. I've never been an advocate of prescriptive grammar myself, only using it out of force of habit from my education. Descriptive grammar—the way language is used, rather than how it should be used has always seemed less dictatorial and arbitrary, and thus more appealing, to me.

But it's a shame that you apply this notion only to language that does not conform to prescription, as with the confused use of 'infer' and 'imply', and simply cast off as pretentious and haughty any use of language that rigidly conform to prescription. The implication is that your language is somehow special and exempt from criticism, yet mine is opprobrious and deserving of criticism. This is a form of bigotry and is as stupid and arbitrary as any other.

The standard for your language seems to be "anything goes" and if anyone takes umbrage with it they should "suck it up". Why, therefore, can anything not go with my own language without you being able to not, as you say, "suck it up"?
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Like arguing, don't you? ;)

Interesting question I'd like you to amswer for me please! Why are trolls often given attention when it would be FAR EASIER to ignore them n would most likely get them to stop n hopefully LEAVE????

Evey
 
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Eveyvibe said:
Like arguing, don't you? ;)

Interesting question I'd like you to amswer for me please! Why are trolls often given attention when it would be FAR EASIER to ignore them n would most likely get them to stop????

Eveyv
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Yes, I do like to argue. No, I'm not a troll. Anyone you dislike or disagree with online is not necessarily a troll. But, let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I am a veritable troll. You submit that trolls should be ignored, and you question the rationale of those that do not ignore trolls. But, if I am a troll why do you not follow your own advice? Perhaps the question should not be why people cannot ignore a troll, but rather why you cannot ignore a troll, insofar as I am indeed a troll, which I'm not.
 
Congrats, the first and only person I have ever placed upon my ignore list.

High praise indeed. This much douchery is too much even for me to stomach.
 
That's highly personal, Evey. Some of my favourite people have AS, but they might not want to tell.

Me? I fit the criteria, apart from certain points. Plus it's overriden by bipolar.
 
Nom de Plume said:
To me, wine is an utterly pointless drink. I've always found it entertainingly odd to see the soi-disant wine aficionado and sommelier poppinjay, with their perfect wine glass and their perfect wine and their perfect performance of a lofty, supercilious cunt hiding their swish demeanor and limp wrist behind an affectation of a well-heeled gourmet.

Let's not pretend to think otherwise, all beverages with an ABV above ~5% are unsavory and difficult to drink without a reflexive grimace. The difference between the tastes of good wine and bad wine is like the difference between the smells of a good fart and a bad fart.

Moreover, there's no logic in drinking any alcohol, without the intent of getting high. And if getting high is the true and real purpose for the consumption of alcohol, it follows that drinking beverages with a low ABV (which I personally define as <25% ABV) is a totally inefficient and time-consuming activity.

This is why I never fool with beers, champagnes, wines, and mixed drinks. Why consume a whole litre of bad-tasting liquid to get drunk, when one can simply quaff down 100 middling milliltres of a worse-tasting rectified spirit, and be fully fuddled in fewer than five minutes? In other words, would you rather drink a gut-busting amount of unpalatable beer or nasty wine, or would you rather take a few gulps of an even nastier tasting purer alcoholic drink?

Hmmm. A whole lot of moderately disgusting pansy potations and feminine refreshments? Or a little bit of severely disgusting libations made for the lionhearted and virile? I choose the latter.

You can keep your can of Coors Lite beer and your cup of Cabernet wine. Give me cocoroco on the rocks, garçon, and I'm golden. A little glazed, groggy, giddy, and regretful maybe, but golden nonetheless.

By the time you're halfway through your glass of Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey (and still not even mildly tipsy), or emptied your whole 16-pack of Miller High life (and feeling like your stomach will burst if you inhale too deep, but still while drunker than the wimpy, pretentious winebibber), I'll already have taken a dozen shots in quick succession, fallen out my seat, and passed out on the floor.
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We have a winner! :) This guy is a star....


Why are you all getting so annoyed at his posts? He is so obviously taking the piss summat rotten, and if he IS actually serious, then he's bloody funny with it :)
 
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Sadie said:
Sorry Sammy :( I shall delete the post.
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Eveyvibe said:
No it's not. I thought I saw him mention it. If he doesn't wish to say he can just say I don't wish to talk about this this. Nom can tell me to mind my own business if he wants to. I'm just trying to help :)

Evey
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Hey, man. Nothing is really personal with me. I'm just not typically taciturn and am very rarely reticent. I used to have qualms about divulging too much personal information, but then I started using dissociatives, such as PCP and ketamine and salvia divinorum, heavily and frequently—I used to snort or smoke PCP everyday, now I do it only every other day. But when I was at my peak with using dissociatives, it seemed like something fundamentally changed; like a massive and forceful seismic jolt in my mental tectonics, so to speak.

I'm not sure if one could call it ego dissolution or something else entirely. It feels very odd and abnormal. Anyway, one of the side effects of this has been a lack of any real desire for privacy.

So as to the supposition that I am autistic, I'm not sure if it is entirely factual but it is fairly close. I do have an autism spectrum disorder that may or may not be autism. It might be Asperger's, some PDD-NOS, or other neurodevelopmental disorder. And this is not my opinion; this is based on the conclusions specialists had drawn from their assessments of me when I was in my early teens.
 
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