You guys keep sticking your head in the sand about censorship

[bilby]

Don't be such a hard ass. In the English language, any noun can be verbed. You just got grammared.

Just because you CAN do something, that does not imply that you SHOULD; much less that it is acceptable to do it in public.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

This thread appears to be a 'haystack fallacy' - an extension of the better known 'strawman', wherein not only are you arguing against a position not held by your opponent, but you are using an unevidenced rebuttal of an argument they didn't make, to discredit the argument they didn't make, in response to your claim that they claimed something, that they didn't, in fact, ever claim.

That's a LOT of straw. I hope nobody strikes a match.

I believe this is labeled the "Limbaugh Paradox."

Nope. It's the Chewbacca Defense.

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/clKi92j6eLE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[ksen]

I am pretty confident that 'to rocket' is not a verb.

I have no clue what this thread is meant to be about. But if anyone here had said that someone 'rocketed' something, I would have Grammar Nazied them so hard, they would have been head spinning for a week.

You need to add "red" to make its proper verb form, i.e. "look at him red rocket his new puppy!"

 

[funinspace]

I am pretty confident that 'to rocket' is not a verb.

I have no clue what this thread is meant to be about. But if anyone here had said that someone 'rocketed' something, I would have Grammar Nazied them so hard, they would have been head spinning for a week.

You need to add "red" to make its proper verb form, i.e. "look at him red rocket his new puppy!"

Bob doesn't give a fuck about haystacks. Bob isn't fucking interested in grammar? Grammar Nazis are stupid fucks. Rockets are shinny, fuck they are fast. Fuck! This is a fucking stupid post of mine.

 

[KeepTalking]

I am pretty confident that 'to rocket' is not a verb.

I have no clue what this thread is meant to be about. But if anyone here had said that someone 'rocketed' something, I would have Grammar Nazied them so hard, they would have been head spinning for a week.

Thought I generally find your posts enlightening, perhaps you should have consulted a dictionary before going all grammar nazi on poor Loren:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rocket?s=t

noun
1.
any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
2.
a space capsule or vehicle put into orbit by such devices.
3.
rocket engine.
verb (used with object)
4.
to move or transport by means of a rocket.
5.
to attack with rockets.
verb (used without object)
6.
to move like a rocket.
7.
(of game birds) to fly straight up rapidly when flushed.

 

[bilby]

Thought I generally find your posts enlightening, perhaps you should have consulted a dictionary before going all grammar nazi on poor Loren:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rocket?s=t

noun
1.
any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
2.
a space capsule or vehicle put into orbit by such devices.
3.
rocket engine.
verb (used with object)
4.
to move or transport by means of a rocket.
5.
to attack with rockets.
verb (used without object)
6.
to move like a rocket.
7.
(of game birds) to fly straight up rapidly when flushed.

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

 

[Bronzeage]

Thought I generally find your posts enlightening, perhaps you should have consulted a dictionary before going all grammar nazi on poor Loren:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rocket?s=t

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

Wait a minute. I remember you. When the future Richard III walked on stage and said, "Grim visaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front," you're the guy who jumped up and yelled, "You can't visage something. Visage is a noun!"

 

[bilby]

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

Wait a minute. I remember you. When the future Richard III walked on stage and said, "Grim visaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front," you're the guy who jumped up and yelled, "You can't visage something. Visage is a noun!"

Wait, what? Did you just imply that Loren's writing is comparable with that of Shakespeare?

Are we in the presence of the famed 'Bard of Vegas'?

 

[ksen]

lol, everyone knows even Shakespeare didn't write like "Shakespeare".

 

[braces_for_impact]

Personally, I don't like sand. Get's into everything, hard to clean up.

 

[Bronzeage]

Wait a minute. I remember you. When the future Richard III walked on stage and said, "Grim visaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front," you're the guy who jumped up and yelled, "You can't visage something. Visage is a noun!"

Wait, what? Did you just imply that Loren's writing is comparable with that of Shakespeare?

Are we in the presence of the famed 'Bard of Vegas'?

I bet Loren could make a convincing Richard III.

 

[Toni]

Thought I generally find your posts enlightening, perhaps you should have consulted a dictionary before going all grammar nazi on poor Loren:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rocket?s=t

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

Personally, I am fond of what Loren can do with 'rabbit.'

 

[fromderinside]

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

Personally, I am fond of what Loren can do with 'rabbit.'

Can he make chairs with rabbits?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Personally, I am fond of what Loren can do with 'rabbit.'

Can he make chairs with rabbits?

Rule 34:

 

[arkirk]

http://blogs.channel4.com/lindsey-h...bomb-attacks-beirut-viewer-show-interest/5646

There are also practical issues – South Beirut, where last Thursday’s bombing occurred, is controlled by Hizbollah, who rarely let journalists film and never freely. There’s no way the hundreds of journalists who descended on Paris would have been permitted to flood a Hizbollah area for days on end. But that’s just a logistical issue, not your problem.

It's so taken for granted that the press there is heavily censored that it rarely gets mentioned--and thus you guys pretend it's not going on.

It is not just in matters of war either. The mainstream press doesn't cover Bernie Sanders' campaign and makes it difficult for him to get his message out while Hillary blathers on endlessly.

Five million in the Congo it is estimated have died in the resource wars there. There was a huge toll in Darfur as well. We are a nation clearly under the thumb of Wall Street exploiters and they will permeate every major news source with their own propaganda and censor whatever may lessen their bottom line. Our mainstream news is so butchered by the time it reaches us, we get more accurate reporting on skateboard contests. It is truly amazing the lengths predatory capitalists will go to to keep their momentary status. In terms of history it is only momentary though that does not help the common man wherever he may reside.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Thought I generally find your posts enlightening, perhaps you should have consulted a dictionary before going all grammar nazi on poor Loren:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rocket?s=t

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

And what's bad English about it?

 

[bilby]

Meh.

It's still not good English to use 'rocketed' in the way he used it.

If some online dictionary makes the same error, it remains an error.

And what's bad English about it?

The past participle 'rocketed' cannot be used in English in the same way as 'bombed', with a simple substitution of the prefix denoting the nature of the projectile; Would you refer to a target as having been 'missiled' or 'bulleted'?

Hang on, you are American, so perhaps you would. You would be wrong to do so though.

This isn't Esperanto. There are rules in English, and they are as Byzantine and illogical as possible.

 

[Archimedes]

And what's bad English about it?

The past participle 'rocketed' cannot be used in English in the same way as 'bombed', with a simple substitution of the prefix denoting the nature of the projectile; Would you refer to a target as having been 'missiled' or 'bulleted'?

Why? If enough people start to use "missile" or "bullet" as a verb that means to attack, hit, target, etc. with missiles or bullets then that will become a valid definition of those words. Why not?

This isn't Esperanto. There are rules in English, and they are as Byzantine and illogical as possible.

Rules that are vague, inconsistent and ever changing. Every single definition and rule within the English language was at one point not a valid word or a valid definition. Things change.

I have a copy of the Concise OED from 1999 that has listed a definition of the word "rocket" as a transitive verb meaning "bombard with rockets". Why is that wrong other than it is your opinion that it is wrong?

Or am I taking you too seriously?

 

[bilby]

The past participle 'rocketed' cannot be used in English in the same way as 'bombed', with a simple substitution of the prefix denoting the nature of the projectile; Would you refer to a target as having been 'missiled' or 'bulleted'?

Why? If enough people start to use "missile" or "bullet" as a verb that means to attack, hit, target, etc. with missiles or bullets then that will become a valid definition of those words. Why not?

Sure, IF enough people start to use the words that way. But right now, they don't; And I am trying my level best to ensure that things stay that way.

This isn't Esperanto. There are rules in English, and they are as Byzantine and illogical as possible.

Rules that are vague, inconsistent and ever changing. Every single definition and rule within the English language was at one point not a valid word or a valid definition. Things change.

Indeed they do; and people resist those changes.

It's a kind of natural selection; lots of changes are introduced, and then those people who find the new way an improvement adopt the changes, while those who find the new way clunky, pointless and/or lacking artistic merit oppose them. Eventually, one side or the other wins by force of numbers, and the change is either dropped or incorporated into the language (or into some dialects thereof).

I have a copy of the Concise OED from 1999 that has listed a definition of the word "rocket" as a transitive verb meaning "bombard with rockets". Why is that wrong other than it is your opinion that it is wrong?

Why should I need another reason? Opposition to changes is a vital part of keeping the language sufficiently stable as to remain useful for conveying information precisely and smoothly. It is just as important to have opposition to change as it is to have change.

Or am I taking you too seriously?

Oh, definitely. But that's OK.

 

[untermensche]

What is called "good" English is pure subjectivity. There is nothing objective about it.