Absolutely despicable sentiment but it's not really surprising coming out of the mouth of a Turkophobe. Illiteracy is a serious issue with serious economic ramifications and it points to a failure in society when large swathes of the adult population are illiterate. In Philadelphia, more than 20% of the adult population is illiterate and many of the illiterate live in poverty due to a lack of educational opportunities. Should these disadvantaged people be mocked simply because society failed them?boozyoldman wrote:All those incapable of putting apostrophes in the right place deserve slow and painful death.
other than family (close friends) what are you prepared to die/kill for?
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Who would mock a poor injun? That's ornery behavior. Best just to ignore them.Harold wrote:Should these disadvantaged people be mocked simply because society failed them?
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I believe it's called the Cherokee Nation.RobW wrote:Fake injuns have their own tribe now?Harold wrote:I would be willing to die for the survival of my tribe..
Your comparing failing to put out correct apostrophes to illiteracy?Harold wrote:Absolutely despicable sentiment but it's not really surprising coming out of the mouth of a Turkophobe. Illiteracy is a serious issue with serious economic ramifications and it points to a failure in society when large swathes of the adult population are illiterate. In Philadelphia, more than 20% of the adult population is illiterate and many of the illiterate live in poverty due to a lack of educational opportunities. Should these disadvantaged people be mocked simply because society failed them?boozyoldman wrote:All those incapable of putting apostrophes in the right place deserve slow and painful death.
You do realize that you guys with English first are a minority on the world stage, the rest of us just use your lingo as a common tongue.... (This post has been carefully filtered from any unintended apostrophes outside the quote)
Good luck with that von oben attitude, are you perhaps an English teacher and trying to scare people into taking extra lessons?
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Cherokees are not fake redskins at all. Try telling a Cherokee that and you may find yourself with a scalp
problem quite suddenly.
In all fairness, people are entitled to be who they think they are (like the Ethiopian "Jews" who are not DNA Jews at all)
and even Elizabeth Warren, an outed faux-redskin, is entitled to pretend to be who she likes - Winston Churchill
used to claim that he was of Iroquois descent on his mother's mother's side - and then there are all sorts
of ethno-cultural anomalies in the world, like the Chinese "Jews" of Kaifeng and these remarkable folks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
However, every True Scot* believes that misuse of apostrophes** and the inability to distinguish between
"less" and "few" deserves a prolonged and very painful public death
* See the True Scott fallacy
** It's time to give the dog its food. Write this out fifty times.
problem quite suddenly.
In all fairness, people are entitled to be who they think they are (like the Ethiopian "Jews" who are not DNA Jews at all)
and even Elizabeth Warren, an outed faux-redskin, is entitled to pretend to be who she likes - Winston Churchill
used to claim that he was of Iroquois descent on his mother's mother's side - and then there are all sorts
of ethno-cultural anomalies in the world, like the Chinese "Jews" of Kaifeng and these remarkable folks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon
However, every True Scot* believes that misuse of apostrophes** and the inability to distinguish between
"less" and "few" deserves a prolonged and very painful public death
* See the True Scott fallacy
** It's time to give the dog its food. Write this out fifty times.
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AN EMBARRASSED PEDANT WRITES:
The intended contrast was between "less"and "fewer" - as in "Fewer True Scots are drinking less whisky than they used to."
The intended contrast was between "less"and "fewer" - as in "Fewer True Scots are drinking less whisky than they used to."
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