We're Fighting For The Gods Of War

[Credo in Deum]

fixed.

[OriginalSin]

 

fixed.

 

 

 

[Credo in Deum]

[OriginalSin]

[Credo in Deum]

[OriginalSin]

[PhuturePriest]

Double negative. Classy.

 

Double negatives are actually acceptable in the English language.

[The Hierophant]

So can I just ask... what is the origin of the name Fetus Priest?

[PhuturePriest]

So can I just ask... what is the origin of the name Fetus Priest?

 

My name for the past 2 years was FuturePriest. However, everyone else here is ancient, whereas I am young, so they all called me "Fetus". Several days ago Dust changed my name to FetusPriest, and it seems it's going to stick.

[Catherine Therese]

Double negatives are actually acceptable in the English language.

You say that like you're surprised ;-).
In the usage that I badged above as "classy," where the negatives were distributed across separate words, that is true.

Where the double negative occurs in prefixes or suffixes of the same word, this is NOT true.

IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD, PEOPLE.


Just sayin'

[PhuturePriest]

You say that like you're surprised ;-).
In the usage that I badged above as "classy," where the negatives were distributed across separate words, that is true.

Where the double negative occurs in prefixes or suffixes of the same word, this is NOT true.

IRREGARDLESS IS NOT A WORD, PEOPLE.


Just sayin'

 

I have found nothing in this post which I disagree with. This has a Nihil Obstat of FP approval.

[Nihil Obstat]

Of course irregardless is a word. You just used it.
It just happens to be a nonstandard word - currently not accepted in most cases - and best to avoid when precise communication is important.

 

English is a little bit like a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the [...] light sockets. We put it in nice clothes and tell it to make friends, and it comes home covered in mud, with its underwear on its head and someone else’s socks on its feet. We ask it to clean up or to take out the garbage, and instead it hollers at us that we don’t run its life, man. Then it stomps off to its room to listen to The Smiths in the dark.

Everything we’ve done to and for English is for its own good, we tell it (angrily, as it slouches in its chair and writes “irregardless” all over itself in ballpoint pen). This is to help you grow into a language people will respect! Are you listening to me? Why aren’t you listening to me??

Like well-adjusted children eventually do, English lives its own life. We can tell it to clean itself up and act more like one of the Classical languages (I bet Latin doesn’t sneak German in through its bedroom window, does it?). We can threaten, cajole, wheedle, beg, yell, throw tantrums, and start learning French instead. But no matter what we do, we will never really be the boss of it. And that, frankly, is what makes it so beautiful.

-Kory Stamper



The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a [woman of great disrepute]. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- James D. Nicoll
 

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4276

[Credo in Deum]

Festizio.

[Catherine Therese]

The paradigm underlying modern linguistics is akin to a distinctly Camus-flavoured brand of existentialism.