| Re: World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language [message #390811 is a reply to message #390808] |
Tue, 11 February 2020 13:26   |
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Originally posted by: Gareth Evans
On 11/02/2020 16:21, JimP wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:50:54 +0000, Gareth Evans
> <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 11/02/2020 08:23, Jim wrote:
>>> Gareth decided to tell a dimwitted racist 'joke', and dug deeper when
>>> the situation was explained to him.
>>
>> The only person trying to be offensive in an infantile manner is you,
>> above. I have not dug deeper but have maintained
>> my stance in the use of an informal term of reference for
>> one people, no different to the use of the term Yanks to
>> describe the Americans.
>
> If you reply to a troll who is trolling you the troll will continue to
> troll.
>
You're a troll?
Figures.
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| Re: World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language [message #390814 is a reply to message #390803] |
Tue, 11 February 2020 18:20 |
Jim
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:50:54 +0000
Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2020 08:23, Jim wrote:
>> Gareth decided to tell a dimwitted racist 'joke', and dug deeper
>> when the situation was explained to him.
>
> The only person trying to be offensive in an infantile manner is you,
> above. I have not dug deeper but have maintained
> my stance in the use of an informal term of reference for
> one people, no different to the use of the term Yanks to
> describe the Americans.
>
> It's been an OT side issue which has really been promulgated
> for far too long, but it has revealed that there are several
> schools of thought here.
>
> Firstly there are those who not only regard the disputed word
> as racist, but, strangely, promote the use of the word as racist.
>
> Secondly, there are those of us who have never experienced the
> word as being racist but merely as an informal idiom for one
> section of the human race (the only race!) and who use it as
> a term of endearment when suggesting as a take-away meal,
> "going for a chinky".
>
> Thirdly there are those who complain about giving offence but
> do so hypocritically by gratuitous offence such as Jim quoted
> above.
>
> Fourthly there are those who originate gratuitous offence
> such as Bob Eager.
>
> Fifthly there are those, snowflakes, who say that you
> should never cause offence but do not realise that there
> are always two sides to any discussion.
>
> Sixthly, there are those of us with an open mind who
> recognise that a joke can be made about any subject
> and that a joke about racial characteristics is not racist;
> where racism is intended to instil hatred. The Yanks,
> for instance, use the Poles as the butt of many of their jokes
> but it is always good-humoured.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it
means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
> 'nuff said?
Too much.
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| Re: World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language [message #390815 is a reply to message #390814] |
Tue, 11 February 2020 18:52 |
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Originally posted by: Gareth Evans
On 11/02/2020 23:20, Jim wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:50:54 +0000
> Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/02/2020 08:23, Jim wrote:
>>> Gareth decided to tell a dimwitted racist 'joke', and dug deeper
>>> when the situation was explained to him.
>>
>> The only person trying to be offensive in an infantile manner is you,
>> above. I have not dug deeper but have maintained
>> my stance in the use of an informal term of reference for
>> one people, no different to the use of the term Yanks to
>> describe the Americans.
>>
>> It's been an OT side issue which has really been promulgated
>> for far too long, but it has revealed that there are several
>> schools of thought here.
>>
>> Firstly there are those who not only regard the disputed word
>> as racist, but, strangely, promote the use of the word as racist.
>>
>> Secondly, there are those of us who have never experienced the
>> word as being racist but merely as an informal idiom for one
>> section of the human race (the only race!) and who use it as
>> a term of endearment when suggesting as a take-away meal,
>> "going for a chinky".
>>
>> Thirdly there are those who complain about giving offence but
>> do so hypocritically by gratuitous offence such as Jim quoted
>> above.
>>
>> Fourthly there are those who originate gratuitous offence
>> such as Bob Eager.
>>
>> Fifthly there are those, snowflakes, who say that you
>> should never cause offence but do not realise that there
>> are always two sides to any discussion.
>>
>> Sixthly, there are those of us with an open mind who
>> recognise that a joke can be made about any subject
>> and that a joke about racial characteristics is not racist;
>> where racism is intended to instil hatred. The Yanks,
>> for instance, use the Poles as the butt of many of their jokes
>> but it is always good-humoured.
>
> “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it
> means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
Very Wittgensteinian.
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| Re: World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language [message #390819 is a reply to message #390811] |
Tue, 11 February 2020 22:13 |
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Originally posted by: JimP
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:26:09 +0000, Gareth Evans
<headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2020 16:21, JimP wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:50:54 +0000, Gareth Evans
>> <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2020 08:23, Jim wrote:
>>>> Gareth decided to tell a dimwitted racist 'joke', and dug deeper when
>>>> the situation was explained to him.
>>>
>>> The only person trying to be offensive in an infantile manner is you,
>>> above. I have not dug deeper but have maintained
>>> my stance in the use of an informal term of reference for
>>> one people, no different to the use of the term Yanks to
>>> describe the Americans.
>>
>> If you reply to a troll who is trolling you the troll will continue to
>> troll.
>>
>
> You're a troll?
>
> Figures.
No dip, I'm not. I was refering to the person you replied to.
--
Jim
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