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josiahd:

If people actually used asinine to mean the things stupid means, other people would start using it as a polite-ish euphemism for the r-word.

The word stupid is not the problem.

Ah, yeah, they have utterly different meanings.

There’s also such a thing as being bad at thinking because you don’t like doing it, or because you’re unwilling to challenge bad ideas that are convenient to you.  That’s what I mostly use “stupid” to mean.

Does anyone else…

josiahd:

…actively dislike using scripts?

I basically don’t ever use them. I find that they make communication harder.

I tend not to use exact scripts, but sets of bullet points.  Also, I usually dislike scripts provided by someone else, but can sometimes adapt them to the way that I actually talk or write.

warlocksexalways:

josiahd:

goldenheartedrose:

Also, I want to punch people who say “use your words”.

Espcially since they never, ever do anything that would make that more possible.

Ugh, the new lead I got when I worked at a daycare used to do that to manipulate children who were nervous into talking to her. Why would anyone want to talk to someone who’s pressuring them and not respecting their feelings and just picking at them and picking at them?

Yeah…when the whole problem is “I don’t HAVE the words you want!”

So Emily.
This fat paycheck you just got.
You need to put a lot of it into savings.

Okay, okay…you can buy one bottle of plum wine….

Oh my god, people who don’t know how to turn off your own phones, no I do not know how to turn off your phone, it is your phone and not my phone, no I don’t have that kind of phone.

daxsymbiont:

a-lot-of-nerve:

letfreedomlulz:

sanityscraps:

daxsymbiont:

IT’S HILARIOUS HOW WE TAKE SHIT SERIOUSLY JUST BECAUSE IT’S WRITTEN IN LATIN OR GREEK WHEN CATULLUS WAS BASICALLY THE TAYLOR SWIFT OF HIS TIME AND VERGIL WAS JUST SOME DUDE WHO WROTE AN EPIC LONGFIC OF THE ODYSSEY WITH A SELF-INSERT PROTAGONIST AND PLATO WAS LIKE… THAT ANNOYING DUDE RANTING ON THE SUBWAY PLATFORM

I’M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD RESPECT THE ANCIENTS LESS, I’M SAYING WE SHOULD RESPECT THE MODERNS MORE

LET’S NOT FORGET DANTE. HE WROTE SELF-INSERT VIRGIL/BIBLE FANFIC WITH ALL HIS ENEMIES IN VARIOUS RUNGS OF HELL.

HOW ABOUT PARADISO WHERE THE WOMAN DANTE WAS STALKING LED HIM THROUGH HEAVEN LOLOLOLOL

the original post makes me—and anyone that knows anything about Latin poetry—incredibly angry

bolding mine.

OP here. i’ve got five years of academic study of latin poetry and prose under my belt. i’m about as close to fluency in latin as you can get, and have a working knowledge of ancient greek.

works i have read in the original: six books of vergil’s aeneid; selections from ovid’s metamorphoses; a substantial portion of catullus’ oeuvre; snippets of livy, sallust, cicero, plato, and homer.

i’d say i know a fucking lot about latin poetry.

do you want to turn this into an academic argument? ok, i’ll bite. give me a fucking essay on what makes catullus objectively superior to taylor swift. (as i recall, they’re both quite vituperative toward their exes.) the aeneid is a fucking masterpiece, and it’s also a work of fanfiction. as in, it’s a spinoff of homer’s iliad and odyssey, taking a very minor character and making him the focal point of the story.

fight me. let’s go.

I actually know nothing about Greek or Latin poetry, but this just made my day.

Protip:

If the people on whose behalf you claim to be working object to the way you talk about them, and you don’t care, it is time to re-examine your values and motivations.