Cool or bling-bling?
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dmallind
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Speaking as one well known for adopting the patois of the uneducated in my barely literate posts, would you enlighten me on the point in history after which we should consider additions to the language based on originally slang usage to be unacceptable?
Do we have to go back to Chaucer (who used plenty of earthy slang)? Shakespeare (who flat out made up words as well as using many gutter-level epithets and descriptors)?
Maybe you prefer a uniquely American benchmark. Perhaps we should adopt the language of the Founding Fathers unchanged.
Now I am aghast when I hear the inability of today's youths to string together two consecutive sentences without using "like" or "y'know"; it bothers me greatly when people are ignorant of basic sentence structure and syntax. However the continuous growth and evolution of the world's most nuanced and varied vocabulary - that of vernacular English, is not a bad thing by any means.
Do we have to go back to Chaucer (who used plenty of earthy slang)? Shakespeare (who flat out made up words as well as using many gutter-level epithets and descriptors)?
Maybe you prefer a uniquely American benchmark. Perhaps we should adopt the language of the Founding Fathers unchanged.
Now I am aghast when I hear the inability of today's youths to string together two consecutive sentences without using "like" or "y'know"; it bothers me greatly when people are ignorant of basic sentence structure and syntax. However the continuous growth and evolution of the world's most nuanced and varied vocabulary - that of vernacular English, is not a bad thing by any means.
macavada
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What is that supposed to mean?
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runninmike
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To me it only looks like it was run through a surface grinder to remove some of the finish from the slide, and then had some stainless screws added and some good looking grips. Not too bad. Mine's all black, but I think the one pictured in the 1st post here looks decent enough too.
To each his own, I'm sure we've all seen the gold anodized Glocks that we could wear around our necks on a large similar gold chain along with a Mercedes emblem and matching teeth to more "blingulate" our stance and our designer sweat suits.
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To each his own, I'm sure we've all seen the gold anodized Glocks that we could wear around our necks on a large similar gold chain along with a Mercedes emblem and matching teeth to more "blingulate" our stance and our designer sweat suits.
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Ukraine Train
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I think it has a nice modern look to it. I'd rock it, "bling" and all.
MTMilitiaman
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They did it! Those bastards! They actually introduced a single-action P220! I hate them! That's one more gun I have to have on a list that grows far faster than my income can tolerate!
As for the whole bling-thing
I dunno. Nor do I care.
As for the whole bling-thing
I dunno. Nor do I care.
dmallind
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Wel macavada if this wasn't the high road I'd be silly and assume that the poster is making a distinction between words that come from the speech patterns of different races and assigning them different values of acceptability.
This being the high road I must be wrong of course, and perhaps it's simply antagonism towards a particular phonetic or particular regional classification.
That said, I wonder if people with this objection know where words like "cool" originally developed their modern vernacular meanings.
This being the high road I must be wrong of course, and perhaps it's simply antagonism towards a particular phonetic or particular regional classification.
That said, I wonder if people with this objection know where words like "cool" originally developed their modern vernacular meanings.
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Speaking as one well known for adopting the patois of the uneducated in my barely literate posts, would you enlighten me on the point in history after which we should consider additions to the language based on originally slang usage to be unacceptable?
Do we have to go back to Chaucer (who used plenty of earthy slang)? Shakespeare (who flat out made up words as well as using many gutter-level epithets and descriptors)?
Maybe you prefer a uniquely American benchmark. Perhaps we should adopt the language of the Founding Fathers unchanged.
Now I am aghast when I hear the inability of today's youths to string together two consecutive sentences without using "like" or "y'know"; it bothers me greatly when people are ignorant of basic sentence structure and syntax. However the continuous growth and evolution of the world's most nuanced and varied vocabulary - that of vernacular English, is not a bad thing by any means.
Rhetorical question: What's bling? Some made up word revolving around some subculture I don't understand and certainly don't care about? I agree with you above, but.........these folks are not Chaucer, not Mills, not Browning, not Nietsche nor Kafka....................Have I missed something here?
Anyway...it's much nicer looking than my Glock 17 or Skyy CPX-1 (basic ugly guns: LOL)
Speaking as one well known for adopting the patois of the uneducated in my barely literate posts, would you enlighten me on the point in history after which we should consider additions to the language based on originally slang usage to be unacceptable?
Do we have to go back to Chaucer (who used plenty of earthy slang)? Shakespeare (who flat out made up words as well as using many gutter-level epithets and descriptors)?
Maybe you prefer a uniquely American benchmark. Perhaps we should adopt the language of the Founding Fathers unchanged.
Now I am aghast when I hear the inability of today's youths to string together two consecutive sentences without using "like" or "y'know"; it bothers me greatly when people are ignorant of basic sentence structure and syntax. However the continuous growth and evolution of the world's most nuanced and varied vocabulary - that of vernacular English, is not a bad thing by any means.
Rhetorical question: What's bling? Some made up word revolving around some subculture I don't understand and certainly don't care about? I agree with you above, but.........these folks are not Chaucer, not Mills, not Browning, not Nietsche nor Kafka....................Have I missed something here?
Anyway...it's much nicer looking than my Glock 17 or Skyy CPX-1 (basic ugly guns: LOL)
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