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rufio:
Quote from: TheQuietOne on 2009 July 18, 20:45:09
Quote from: rufio on 2009 July 14, 09:42:25
This is like asking why the Romans decided to stop speaking Latin and start speaking Italian (was there something wrong with Latin?!!!!1111)
Romans? Italian? You might want to reconsider what you wrote because it is painfully wrong.
Well, the current denizens of Rome do, in fact, speak Italian, and it's not like all of the Romans living in Rome were suddenly wiped out by a natural disaster and then replaced with people who were exactly the same except that they were now called "Italians".
Audrey:
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Personally, I am perfectly willing to bet that Audrey is a genuinely xeonphobic linguistically ignorant dumbass rather than a troll. God knows there's plenty of those around here already.
Hey 'dumbass' yourself, Rufio. I have never insulted you 'personally', so why do you feel the need to insult me? Now that is what I call trolling.
If you bother to read back on my posts you may gather, from the standard of the English in them, that I am far from 'linguistically ignorant'. Latin and French were two of my matric subjects and I did further studies in French and German, and English was one of my majors at University, so if you are going to insult me, try picking on things that I am not good at. Sports? Now, I really suck at sports.
Actually, if I was xenophobic (not 'xeonphobic'. Pot, kettle springs to mind), that is, have an irrational fear of foreign places and things, I probably wouldn't have had the guts to live in South Africa, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, as well as holiday in the really scary parts of Britain, the US, Switzerland and Thailand.
I notice scores of people took you up on your bet but I think you have lost your own bet. However here's something I would bet on - you haven't left the shores of US. Surprise me!
*Inflammatory observation warning* (Could be considered troll-like, but isn't).
I have had the pleasure, seriously, of traversing your lovely country and I am afraid that I have not come across a more ignorant, insular and xenophobic nation regarding things foreign. I mean, seriously, I was asked on more than one occasion, aren't I afraid of the wild animals that roam our 'African' streets?????? There seems to be no knowledge of the distinction between the continent of Africa and the various countries which make up the whole.
In my opinion and generally-speaking, American general knowledge about things beyond their own little American world is woeful. But, let me not be unfair, our Australian and UK cousins are nearly as bad.
Xenophobic? No. Critical? Yes.
Roflganger:
There are plenty, and I mean *plenty*, of South Africans who are just as ignorant of what goes on outside SA's borders, and particularly within America's, as there are Americans with small worldviews. On a daily basis, I meet people who paint the very large country that is the USA with one broad brush, as if a few singular instances of ignorance define the entire country. How small minded is that?
Of the South Africans I've met, I'd say 75% have never been stepped foot off the continent. Some of the ones I've met have little concept that there's a difference between America and Canada. A significant portion have a negative view of America and its citizens in general based on no personal experience whatsoever, and always express surprise at the fact that I turn out not to be a loud, obnoxious, Hawaiian shirt-wearing buffoon who only knows how to talk about guns and beer.
If I take off my shoes, I can count the number of people that I haven't heard used racial slurs (even cleverly disguised ones) or who don't treat black people differently than white people. Yet I manage not to make sweeping generalizations that the lot of South Africa is composed of ignorant, racist idiots who all wear light blue and khaki shirts with dark blue pockets. Funny how that works.
But of course, I am just one American out of many. I wouldn't expect people to base their opinion of my country on their experiences with me. That would just be stupid.
spaceface:
I South Africa and there are wild animals roaming in the streets AS I WRITE. Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
However, sweeping generalizations FTL. Trolls, the lot of you. Pah.
CheritaChen:
Here's something you obviously missed in your vaunted education:
Quote from: Audrey on 2009 July 19, 12:11:49
Hey 'dumbass' yourself, Rufio. I have never insulted you 'personally' <snip>
Wrapping something in single quotes is not a proper way to emphasize. Quotes are for quotation of exact speech or text, or to imply that the chosen word is dubious in its usage.
Cut that shit out, or I'll have to beat you over the head with Fowler. Watch out, because even my paperback copy weighs a good two pounds.
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