#1. I hereby banish the word "The", in context with an adjective or a person's name. It is no longer funny. Replacing it with the even more loathsome "Teh" will earn you twice as much of a beating
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Putting "the" in front of a person's name strikes me as dehumanizing, for some reason. Probably because it isn't usually done with proper nouns. I'm not sure what you mean about its being used with adjectives, though. Nouns, yes, but adjectives?
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Once upon a time, after caber tossing practice, a motion was made to pack 5 or 6 of us into emolame's tent and drive towards hot chocolate. Loud unsightly aardvarks indicated a giant ant, which emolame thought a trip to the gas guzzling air pump would exacerbate. When we arrived, the tire was shredded into thousands of tiny nachos, melted into a liquid and pissed off the wheel. There was no known spare tire and the gas station people wouldn't dream of eating us, so emolame decided to call Triple J. Just at that moment , bohemianslacker discovered a spare tire in the bayou, however we still needed a tank and a gas mask. Luckily for us, a couple of Satanist missionaries were either getting revenge or trying to convert other paying customers and they happened to have the necessary
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>Putting "the" in front of a person's name strikes me as dehumanizing, for some reason. Probably because it isn't usually done with proper nouns. I'm not sure what you mean about its being used with adjectives, though. Nouns, yes, but adjectives?
I'm talking about trendy internet slang like "The Cute" or "The Funny". Those are normally adjectives I think.
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Once upon a time, after caber tossing practice, a motion was made to pack 5 or 6 of us into emolame's tent and drive towards hot chocolate. Loud unsightly aardvarks indicated a giant ant, which emolame thought a trip to the gas guzzling air pump would exacerbate. When we arrived, the tire was shredded into thousands of tiny nachos, melted into a liquid and pissed off the wheel. There was no known spare tire and the gas station people wouldn't dream of eating us, so emolame decided to call Triple J. Just at that moment , bohemianslacker discovered a spare tire in the bayou, however we still needed a tank and a gas mask. Luckily for us, a couple of Satanist missionaries were either getting revenge or trying to convert other paying customers and they happened to have the necessary ( ... )
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I'm talking about trendy internet slang like "The Cute" or "The Funny". Those are normally adjectives I think.
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