You’re When Not Your

LinearLineman

I fear you are taking me too literally, @syrupcore. What I actually said (opposed to the origins) is a subject of greater controversy, yet no one seems to find that offensive.

AudioGus

@LinearLineman said:
I fear you are taking me too literally, @syrupcore. What I actually said (opposed to the origins) is a subject of greater controversy, yet no one seems to find that offensive.

Give him back @syrupcore

stormbeats

@syrupcore said:

@LinearLineman said:
@stormbeats, well, the Egyptians were damn good at wearing masks I am sure you will agree. But we're (or at least I'm) talking about Latin here, and those Latins never met an ancient Greek, let alone an Egyptian. You're ok in my book, too, my friend.

Huh? None of us have ever met an ancient Roman (or an ancient Greek, etc) but you've just laid out the linguistic connection between our currently spoken version of English and theirs (they're's? ;p). Why in the world would you disconnect Latin from the tongue spoken in ancient Egypt just because a random Roman in 100BC had never met an Egyptian?

FWIW, I reckon suggesting 'the greeks stole everything from Egypt' is awfully reductionist but the cultural connections are very real.

@syrupcore What “cultural connection” the Egyptians/Kemetians invited the Greeks who then massacred them and were forced to be disconnected. I say this not with hate but truth.

JohnnyGoodyear

@LinearLineman said:
I fear you are taking me too literally, @syrupcore. What I actually said (opposed to the origins) is a subject of greater controversy, yet no one seems to find that offensive.

Hmmm. We are in very murky territory here.

LinearLineman

Murky, indeed @JohnnyGoodyear, somehow I think you got it. Anyway, I will no longer respond on this thread as it has become way overblown for what it is worth and if I say literally what I think it will only make things worse. This "debate" is not worth the binary code it is written in.🤐😘

[Deleted User]

At this rate, Michael may decide to prohibit the discussion of both grammar and the exchange of ideas between ancient cultures.

JohnnyGoodyear

@InfoCheck said:
At this rate, Michael may decide to prohibit the discussion of both grammar and the exchange of ideas between ancient cultures.

I sense a staff meeting to confirm a policy and position moving forward etc.

Suboidua

@LinearLineman said:

Sorry, it may seem petty, but the dumbing down of language doesn’t help anyone really. It always stops me in my tracks ( no pun intended). I think, “Is this person unaware that “your” does not mean “You are”? I do not mean to offend anyone, but people do judge a person ( or used to, anyway) by how he or she writes. Contractions are pretty elementary and if it is laziness than is it better to be lazy and sound uneducated? Again, I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. I don’t think anyone here is uneducated, but it is a simple thing to correct. Thanks for considering it.

this is so discriminating especially to us non-native english speaker - judging us by how we write , while the op himself made a mistake by writing 'than' instead of 'then'.

[Deleted User]

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@InfoCheck said:
At this rate, Michael may decide to prohibit the discussion of both grammar and the exchange of ideas between ancient cultures.

I sense a staff meeting to confirm a policy and position moving forward etc.

Perhaps the thought might be that if you have enough people gather on an online forum, they’ll end up having conflicts between each other. How much monitoring of these disagreements will we spend our limited time doing while trying to encourage them to be considerate of one another before we decide it’s not worth our while?