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sonnet57 replied to your quote: “[B]eyond a certain point, humans — especially men…
Your tags on this post are shameful. Don’t be part of the problem.…
what
Hyperbolic (#YOU’RE THE MOST AWFUL THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO HUMANITY FUCKER), dismissive (#fundies), broadly generalizing (#christian, #abstinence). If you use the same tactics (read: bad tactics) as the people you’re opposing you can’t really make a persuasive point. Don’t be part of the problem.
Thoughts: On TOMS
YES, it is important for people to have shoes. But it’s important that providing those shoes doesn’t cause more harm than good. It’s important that shoes are provided by supporting the local economy and by encouraging local job growth.
This good article from okayafrica puts the problem into…
I just fail to understand how someone can dump on a company going out of their way to give away free things. Just because it isn’t the best possible thing doesn’t mean it’s not still a good thing.
But don’t let yourself fall into the trap of thinking that all you need to do to help alleviate the suffering of others is buy a shoddy pair of shoes. Do MORE.
This assumes that the average person has a desire to “Do MORE”, which they don’t (because if they did, problems would be solved). If TOMS is getting people who would otherwise contribute nothing to contribute anything more than nothing, they’ve done good. I can’t really understand any rationalization otherwise.
Also, that third quote is at odds with everything else you’ve said, and that confuses me.
Daughter of Air: Dear whenlightsgoout (I hope this somehow finds you; the content was too long for an "ask", otherwise I would just "ask"...
Hi, I am the author of the post on UNC/State and NCSSM. I sincerely hope that you weren’t offended by my post. I definitely recognize that not everyone at a selective school or an Ivy is as snobbish as I may have portrayed them. I understand that there’s a diverse student body at any school, no…
“Purely from my perspective.”
FTFY
(Source: heknowsalotaboutseanconnery)
Probably because it’s not true.
“1756, “special vocabulary of tramps or thieves,” later “jargon of a particular profession” (1801), of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Scandinavian source, cf. Norwegian slengenamn ”nickname,” slengja kjeften ”to abuse with words,” literally “to sling the jaw,” related to Old Norse slyngva ”to sling.”“
Source: http://etymonline.com/?term=slangYou mean…it’s slang for shortened language probably because it’s not? I don’t understand what you’re saying is probably happening because slang meaning shortened language isn’t true…
Except that slang basically does mean shortened language… The dictionary entry I saw when I looked it up said “informal language,” but that’s basically just a different way of saying the same thing. I mean, admittedly, there are some informal words that aren’t really any shorter than their formal counterparts, but I think for the most part they’re informal because they’re shortened.
First example that comes to mind: “legit” = slang for (shortened from) “legitimate”.
That’s an interesting website, and thanks for looking it up, but you failed to include the part where
OED, while admitting “some approximation in sense,” discounts this connection based on “date and early associations.”
So our word “slang” probably didn’t come from the Norwegian stuff.
Other relevant stuff:
Liberman also denies it, as well as any connection with French langue. Rather, he derives it elaborately from an old word meaning “narrow piece of land.” Sense of “very informal language characterized by vividness and novelty” first recorded 1818.
I guess narrow piece of land —> narrow language?
Your tag was “i seriously never noticed this”, which is what my reply was directed at. The post is saying that ‘Slang’ is a shortening of ‘Shortened Language’, which while cool is not how the word came about. This is an example of a backronym. The word ‘Slang’ has it’s own etymological history, some (most?) of which is under debate. But whether or not it’s a condensation of ‘shortened language’ is not a notion held by anyone save the esteemed institute of weknowmemes.com.
