Wow. I wasn't looking for misunderstanding, I was trying to express something which is relatively straightforward, but I obviously failed.

If you think I was making some kind of character assessment, or criticism of your mental capabilities then I was doing an even worse job of expressing myself than usual. That wasn't in the least what I was on about.

I'll stop now, there's no point when value laden terms are in the game.

Have you eaten? Don't get so easily frustrated.. Unless you are in it for that.

Maybe I am not putting it clear, I can't harp on the horrors of codifications of mistakes, despite of personally disliking it. It is a shift largely promoted by so many users that we have very little power over that.

I can't ignore the qualities in changing the status quo in general - whether it is through thinking as an individual entity or confronted by other thinking entities. It feels good to be confronted and inspired, it often means what I am thinking needs adjustment. I am not taking the meaning of other people's existence solely as ways to improve myself or my thinking, that would be egocentric and unpoetic.

Btw - "I think therefore I am" has slowly transformed to "I act therefore I am", I don't like it. We no longer look for opportunities to think...but for getting back our lost authenticity. I wish people existed through thinking and less through acting.

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Are we still on word of today?

Yeah! Go ahead!

"Bark".

yes, at the moment it's "talking in cyrcles".
You put that in one word, you're a native English speaker, no?

1 - love.

Resilience.

dispassion

While it seems perfectly reasonable to me, I understand why it may not look so to JW.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.

Befuddlement.

Pretentious twaddle

That's two words. HTH.


Pedant.

According to corpus linguistics... [continue incomprehensibly and passive aggressively for sixteen paragraphs]

Nah. It's still two. Look, there's a gap between 'em.

That's not a gap, that's a social construct.

Economical or sociological?




SOBEIT! We need your next word.

Wittgensteioaoeinian.

Embrace.

Embrace change.


I know it was addressed to RufusB, but here's my input.
I say embrace change but I don't do it myself so wholeheartedly in real life. I don't like bad spelling or grammar and propagating them in my native language, it looks lazy and scary to me. I guess I just don't want to open a dictionary one day and see everything I knew has changed. I remember how surprised at the old people's lack of willingness to adjust to current pronunciation or spelling rules I used to be, once. It all looks so clear now.

But, don't underestimate the number of pedants. I noticed more pedants than "thugs" in real life (hehe, funny word to pin down the rules breakers), online fora and things like that are something different. I guess the vast majority of people are neither thugs, nor pedants. They simply have more linguistic registers up their sleeve and are not shy to use them. I think online confrontations arise from our incapacity of assessing the other person's mood. Or our obsession to nail it, be right.
Lol, I would have never thought I would discuss about these things in English, on a public forum. These sort of discussions are reserved for more familiar people or environment, native language, all the comfort they bring. So please excuse all the "babbling". I could really use some coffee..

Anyhow, another words for today that came to my mind after reading an article in a magazine from back home.

lingua franca

What would it be after Brexit? French or German? How or will we change anything in this regard too? Just asking myself lately.
I might need to start polishing that rusty, school like French language I posses for now. Oh, the horrors. As if German wasn't enough of a trouble...a trouble that's feeding on the rest of them... :ROFL:

Well now you're just being silly.

The greatest living Hawaiian phlisophopher.