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Post by Sìle on Feb 1, 2010 22:25:55 GMT -1
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Post by dreamguardian on Feb 2, 2010 6:49:01 GMT -1
I know we have some incredibly clever people on this forum but can I make a plea that incredibly clever people use nice simple words please I hate needing to use a dictionary to understand forum posts! Phew ... I thought it was just me but was too embarrassed to say anything I thought BC was fine & articulate under the circumstances. As for NC, I just can't abide the arrogant uninformed nob or his style. The question got asked but no one was allowed to actually answer. I appreciate there's a time issue involved but you can't have a serious debate by constantly interupting someone. I find these cheap programs frustrating because there's opinions I completely dissagree with but I would atleast like to have the opportunity to hear them so I can make my mind up or present a different view
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Post by potia on Feb 2, 2010 9:47:14 GMT -1
I know we have some incredibly clever people on this forum but can I make a plea that incredibly clever people use nice simple words please I hate needing to use a dictionary to understand forum posts! Phew ... I thought it was just me but was too embarrassed to say anything I could have felt embarrassed but decided not to - after all we can't all be fantastic linguists. Mind you I do feel I have some mitigating circumstances - try watching an hour or so of CBeebies - I recommend 6-7pm and feel your brains turn to mush and dribble out your ears. In some ways it's quite good for relief of work induced stress. I live in a world filled with Bionicles, Nara bugs, Upsy Daisy and Timmy the sheep! Yogo anyone?
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Post by megli on Feb 2, 2010 9:57:18 GMT -1
haha, yes, I see your point, Potia! I live in a world where nasty men say things to me unexpectedly in Homeric Greek in order to catch me out, so jargon has become a way of life....
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Post by deiniol on Feb 2, 2010 13:11:02 GMT -1
I live in a world where nasty men say things to me unexpectedly in Homeric Greek in order to catch me out You have no idea what kind of bizzare mental image that conjures up.
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Post by Lee on Feb 2, 2010 14:39:26 GMT -1
can tyou learnt o say 'shrivel up and die you insufferable tumor' in sanskrit perhaps?
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Post by arth_frown on Feb 2, 2010 16:38:17 GMT -1
Mind you I do feel I have some mitigating circumstances - try watching an hour or so of CBeebies - I recommend 6-7pm and feel your brains turn to mush and dribble out your ears. In some ways it's quite good for relief of work induced stress. I live in a world filled with Bionicles, Nara bugs, Upsy Daisy and Timmy the sheep! Yogo anyone? Yes I had that a few years ago. Now it's Hannah Montana and all that Disney channel sh*t. Don't mind watching sponge bob square pants.
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Post by Adam on Feb 2, 2010 17:10:21 GMT -1
Mind you I do feel I have some mitigating circumstances - try watching an hour or so of CBeebies - I recommend 6-7pm and feel your brains turn to mush and dribble out your ears. In some ways it's quite good for relief of work induced stress. I live in a world filled with Bionicles, Nara bugs, Upsy Daisy and Timmy the sheep! Yogo anyone? Yes I had that a few years ago. Now it's Hannah Montana and all that Disney channel sh*t. Don't mind watching sponge bob square pants. Bloody vampires here And werewolves... methinks a sexuality is being defined ;D
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Post by clare on Feb 2, 2010 17:20:35 GMT -1
Arth said . . .
If pagans have a reverence for nature, I wonder where natural disasters fit in?
Clare replied . . .
For me, disasters are part of the way of things, neither good or bad. Many of the original civilisations grew up around tectonic plates, I supposed because the earth would be more fertile there. Or something. I'm so out of modern Pagan thought that I don't know if the old thing of rebirth from death in terms of mulch is still talked about.
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Post by deiniol on Feb 2, 2010 18:46:03 GMT -1
can tyou learnt o say 'shrivel up and die you insufferable tumor' in sanskrit perhaps? If I'm reading the sandhi tables correctly, I think it would be something like śuṣya mrayaca, tvaṃ yo 'sahyavraṇo 'si.
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Post by megli on Feb 2, 2010 18:50:21 GMT -1
can tyou learnt o say 'shrivel up and die you insufferable tumor' in sanskrit perhaps? If I'm reading the sandhi tables correctly, I think it would be something like śuṣya mrayaca, tvaṃ yo 'sahyavraṇo 'si. Crikey!
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Post by deiniol on Feb 2, 2010 19:15:09 GMT -1
If I'm reading the sandhi tables correctly, I think it would be something like śuṣya mrayaca, tvaṃ yo 'sahyavraṇo 'si. Crikey! I'll grant that it doesn't really roll off the tongue.
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Post by megli on Feb 2, 2010 19:37:14 GMT -1
|Please tell me that took you several minutes, and you didn't just WRITE it out of your head.
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Post by deiniol on Feb 2, 2010 20:12:14 GMT -1
|Please tell me that took you several minutes, and you didn't just WRITE it out of your head. Are you meaning to tell me that you can't? Honestly, Williams, see me afterwards. (Teach Yourself Sanskrit was to hand and the dictionary at spokensanskrit.de is remarkably comprehensive )
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Post by megli on Feb 2, 2010 20:45:59 GMT -1
ha! no I bloody can't!
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Post by dreamguardian on Feb 3, 2010 15:58:43 GMT -1
If pagans have a reverence for nature, I wonder where natural disasters fit in? I think ND's only cause theological problems for those that believe in a creator God with an ultimate divine plan - I don't. In context, I do have reverence for nature but IT"S NOT my God yet I find most of mine there. I find it both breathtakingly beautiful and cruel. That's just the way it is, as is life itself.
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Post by Midori on Feb 5, 2010 17:06:24 GMT -1
From an exegetical point of view, I remain heavily influenced by all the neoplatonist stuff I read as a teenager, so nature is to me a theophany in the same way that everything else is. I just don't see "Nature" as being somehow inherently more sacred than anything else in the world. I know we have some incredibly clever people on this forum but can I make a plea that incredibly clever people use nice simple words please I hate needing to use a dictionary to understand forum posts! Well said, Potia, I would love to see the discussions in everyday English, not Intellectual gobbledegook! Campaign for plain English, please! Cheers, Midori
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Post by deiniol on Feb 5, 2010 20:20:12 GMT -1
I would love to see the discussions in everyday English, not Intellectual gobbledegook! Campaign for plain English, please! Cheers, Midori Define "everyday English" for me please? It varies from person to person, not two people have exactly the same idiolect (a personal understanding and usage of language) or vocabulary. As anyone who has read some of my blog will no doubt know that my personal style tends towards the prolix (overly wordy), and I use a great deal of recherché vocabulary. However, I don't do this consciously, nor even to make myself appear better-read than I am: those big, intimidating, complex words are simply assimilated into my personal lexicon to the degree that I don't realise that they might be unfamiliar to others. "Everyday English" varies as well as by context. When I'm at university, I hear conversations in which people use words like "exegesis", "paradigm", "aetiology" and "phoric" with relative impunity. At work, however, the level of discourse is rather lower, the most common word seems to be "faggot" (a word which most frequently comes from me, I hasten to add). Which is more "everyday": the well-informed discourse in academia, or the polyglottal profanity of a professional kitchen? Further, a lot of what is under discussion here and elsewhere is a specialised field, with its own terminology and jargon. It's not "intellectual gobbledegook", it's appropriate field-specific terminology. It's also frequently the only succint way of discussing something: to eschew technical vocabulary leaves one simply floundering in fuzzily-defined circumlocutions. It makes about as much sense as speaking of "the pointy end" in a discussion on naval technology. Now, I've no problem with defining words that people don't understand. In fact, I welcome it: having to explain something clearly is a fantastic way of clarifying and ordering your own conceptions on the subject. Don't feel that you need to run to a dictionary, just ask. But I point blank refuse to just "dumb down" with no good reason. EDIT: Sorry, that's a bit vicious. "Intellectual gobbledegook" really set me off there.
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Post by Rion on Feb 6, 2010 9:22:37 GMT -1
While I agree with your main point, and you probably did it intentionally for comic effect, that post does read a little as though you were overly liberal with the right click > thesaurus option in Word, as some of my undergrads are wont to do *sigh* Although I reckon you could have found a wonderful synonym for "fuzzily-defined" if you'd tried
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