You have already watched episodes five and six of Oofuri, so please do not watch them again trying to figure out which episode you're on on. It is episode seven that you need to watch.
The bad thing is that now with the computers crashed, I can't watch anymore episodes. This laptop is over nine years old, and the video card does'nt work.
And on that note, I have neither watched nor read that other baseball manga series,Major. Even if it does look like it might be filled with lots of possibly offensive, un-PC stereotypes.
*Edited to remove dysgraphic typing.*
Why does'nt my computer recognise Dysgraphia as a real word? Hmm..
Showing posts with label grammar nazism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar nazism. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
This is probably a Bad thing.
Well, I'm using my friend's old hotmail account because I can't recover the info for mine. Anyway, after I deleted all his interest tags, I started putting in mine, and I got into a bit of a quandry.
Do you put Organ music or Organisation first, if you're doing it alphabetically? See, I thought first that it's obviously organisation, but then, I realised that technically organ music is a compound word. So you count the character after the 'organ-' part of the word. So it's still organisation, right? But what it you count the space as the character after the first word? Then organ music goes first, right? But a compound word is one word made of two words. It's still just one word, so you just go to the 'm', and organisation comes first, right? But then, since organisation etymologically comes from two words*, does'nt that sort of make it a compound word too? But which part do you count as the first part? But etymology =/= meaning, so I left out that last part.So let's just put 'organisation' first and call it a day. But what if it's wrong and someone notices! O, the Irony of saying that one loves organisation in a sentence that is incorrectly organised! I won't alow it! Not even the possibility!
In the end, I left both out.
I should probably go back and get this checked out too.
*I think.My dictionaries and my dictionary program say that it comes from Greek and Latin roots, but I think that it really only comes from the Latin root. That's just me, and I'm not an English student or anything like that.
Do you put Organ music or Organisation first, if you're doing it alphabetically? See, I thought first that it's obviously organisation, but then, I realised that technically organ music is a compound word. So you count the character after the 'organ-' part of the word. So it's still organisation, right? But what it you count the space as the character after the first word? Then organ music goes first, right? But a compound word is one word made of two words. It's still just one word, so you just go to the 'm', and organisation comes first, right? But then, since organisation etymologically comes from two words*, does'nt that sort of make it a compound word too? But which part do you count as the first part? But etymology =/= meaning, so I left out that last part.So let's just put 'organisation' first and call it a day. But what if it's wrong and someone notices! O, the Irony of saying that one loves organisation in a sentence that is incorrectly organised! I won't alow it! Not even the possibility!
In the end, I left both out.
I should probably go back and get this checked out too.
*I think.My dictionaries and my dictionary program say that it comes from Greek and Latin roots, but I think that it really only comes from the Latin root. That's just me, and I'm not an English student or anything like that.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
*Slams head on the desk*
*Sigh* One of my friends from school has started spelling words differently in order to be more gender neutral. She sent me an e-mail with 'woman' spelled as 'womon' and 'person' spelled as 'persyn'.The Grammar Nazi in me will not accept such abuses of the English language.It's not that so much that I'm against the use of gender neutral language*, as it is that I'm against the creation of gender neutral words by raping words already in existence for a political or social crusade. Especially when there is little logic to actually changing said words.
Take 'person' for instance.In an effort to remove male-oriented language, the already neutral word 'person' is seemingly further neutered by removing 'son' from it, 'son' being a male word.Only, that's like, Totally Wrong™, dude.
Because etymologically, 'Person' comes to us from middle English through French, From the Latin 'Persona', originating in the Greek word prosopon. I.e., there is no etymological connection between the 'son' in 'Person' and the actual word 'Son', which comes to us from Middle English through Old High German, from the Greek sungenis. There is no reason to change 'person' to 'persyn', because the words 'person' and 'son' have NO etymological connection other than the fact that they both ultimately originated in Greek.
That's it.
'Persyn' is a Word Fail™.
The same with 'human' (Changed to 'humyn'), which I formerly thought was already gender neutral, but which I've also seen furthered neutered.This despite the fact that 'Human' comes to us from Middle English directly from Latin (humanus) where the 'man' in humanus is not specifically male oriented.(Even if it is masculine in gender.) the English word 'Man' does'nt even come to use from Latin.It comes to use from Middle English originating in the Old English mon. Latin 'Humanus'.Old English 'Mon'. two languages, two completely different etymologies.
It's therefore also a word fail.™
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to retreat to my lair,where everyone is a Grammar Nazi and they speak the received English language properly and don't ignore etymologies or proper spellings because it makes them feel nice.
*Nothing here, nope.But good to see you followed the asterisk!
Take 'person' for instance.In an effort to remove male-oriented language, the already neutral word 'person' is seemingly further neutered by removing 'son' from it, 'son' being a male word.Only, that's like, Totally Wrong™, dude.
Because etymologically, 'Person' comes to us from middle English through French, From the Latin 'Persona', originating in the Greek word prosopon. I.e., there is no etymological connection between the 'son' in 'Person' and the actual word 'Son', which comes to us from Middle English through Old High German, from the Greek sungenis. There is no reason to change 'person' to 'persyn', because the words 'person' and 'son' have NO etymological connection other than the fact that they both ultimately originated in Greek.
That's it.
'Persyn' is a Word Fail™.
The same with 'human' (Changed to 'humyn'), which I formerly thought was already gender neutral, but which I've also seen furthered neutered.This despite the fact that 'Human' comes to us from Middle English directly from Latin (humanus) where the 'man' in humanus is not specifically male oriented.(Even if it is masculine in gender.) the English word 'Man' does'nt even come to use from Latin.It comes to use from Middle English originating in the Old English mon. Latin 'Humanus'.Old English 'Mon'. two languages, two completely different etymologies.
It's therefore also a word fail.™
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to retreat to my lair,where everyone is a Grammar Nazi and they speak the received English language properly and don't ignore etymologies or proper spellings because it makes them feel nice.
*Nothing here, nope.But good to see you followed the asterisk!
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