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Nov 16, 2009 19:10

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ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:11:51 UTC

Who used it? What are you talking about?

unlikefather November 17 2009, 00:15:37 UTC

One of the library people
He meant mute not stupid, but I don't that word at all

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:20:09 UTC

Oh. [pause]

Did you ask him not to use it? [pause again, then written a little quicker] You know, write it down or something? If you don't like it you should let the guy know.

unlikefather November 17 2009, 00:21:34 UTC

No it's okay
People don't use it a lot talking about me (it's just strange when they do)

It'd be nice if it just meant one thing or the other though, I think...

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:26:39 UTC

So? Even if it doesn't happen often, the guy probably didn't know it bugged you. It's not a bad thing to correct somebody if they got it wrong.

Words are weird like that. I don't get the point of them meaning the same thing either.

unlikefather November 17 2009, 00:30:33 UTC

I suppose...but I really don't mind now that I think about it
No harm done :)

I guess some people speaking the same language make up a word for different things? And then it gets around and people get confused...

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:33:33 UTC

If you say so.

Yeah, I guess. Or some things change what they mean over a really long time. They talked about that in school.

[Pause] English is weird.

mentis_reae November 17 2009, 00:36:22 UTC

Cutting insight.

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:40:38 UTC

Well, It is.

But you probably wouldn't think so. Most of us don't love the English language enough to give sermons on it.

mentis_reae November 17 2009, 00:42:40 UTC

The man who denied the idiosyncrasy of the English language would be a fool. I'm saying that it's deeply self-evident.

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:48:40 UTC

It's weird, it's got a lot of rules a lot of people don't get, and it's complicated. Also it's not the most important thing to worry about.

mentis_reae November 17 2009, 00:49:26 UTC

You think language unimportant?

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:53:29 UTC

It's not all that important. As I said. Other things to worry about.

mentis_reae November 17 2009, 00:54:41 UTC

Of course. Similarly, eating is inconsequential; after all, if we stop breathing, we'll die much more quickly.

unlikefather November 17 2009, 00:36:44 UTC

I don't even remember all those rules about English in school either

ohsotraumatic November 17 2009, 00:43:00 UTC

Yeah, me either. I wasn't ever that great at it in the first place, but still.

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