On 11 Nov 2005, at 05.02, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
English has been such a "mutt" since at least 1066, when the Norman French mixed their language (already a "bastard" French mixed with Norse) with an Anglo-Saxon which already had some "corruption" of Latin from the Romans. Are you attempting to undo a millennium of linguistic intermixing?
Check my note at Talk:Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. I'm arguing that it's good to know that the language is full of duplicate words and which and, where possible, to fling away (centrifuge) the Latin and Greek from the English and to think harder about how to put down (deposit) these words without downputting (decreasing) the lot (number) of English whims (ideas).
And, while "riht" may have been the correct spelling of that word in the form of English spoken 500 years ago, this too has changed, and it is now considered wrong.
I know how it's /considered/. Already now, people within the same language speak and write differently. Even if they agree that they should write however the greatest dole does, it will have several kinds of rhetoric and dialect. That they can't live together means that their agreement is on the wrong grounds and they don't know what they're doing. Knowing what one's doing and putting it distinctly is how to deem objectively.
On 11 Nov 2005, at 18.59, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Autymn D.C. wrote:
<snip screed about english being polluted> > What in specific haven't I proven? > > -Aut > 1^2 = -1^2 > (1^2)^.5 =^.5 (-1^2)^.5 > ±1 :: ±-1 > ±1 = ±1; ±-1 = ±-1
Since you've just tried to prove that +1 = -1, I think we can safely assume that your banning was in good order. If you want to write in some language that isn't english, go do it somewhere other than the English Wikipedia.
/You/ are a troll, and your email is meaningless, having nothing to do with the argument to this point. It's the opposite of what I was doing. I have to deal with illiterates and mindlesses every day over the internet, who criticize and badmouth others and me because they can't see how /they/ slipped up. They, like you, can't support any of their attacks, and they use a host of fallacies to defend themselves whilst doing nothing to expose whatever wrongness was in the claim. And often the victims get punished, but /they/ don't; they get to keep running around thinking that they got the best. And no one watching is the more competent to switch back the harm.
-Aut