Post #220,156
8/19/05 5:11:23 PM
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I rather don't think so
It was peter's assertion that we're running around here blasting "innocent Iraqis" off the face of the continent, as an explicit national policy. He provided links, purported to support this absurd assertion. I pointed out that the links had fuckall to do with that assertion. And I'm being obtuse.
Anything you say, Jake...anything you say.
jb4
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Post #220,157
8/19/05 5:15:25 PM
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s/continent/planet/
As noted in my post.
Peter
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Post #220,160
8/19/05 5:25:30 PM
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Ididn't know the USA constituted the whole planet!
Shoot to kill is fine, in the USA
As long as those being shot at are innocent Iraqis who get the living fuck shot out of them by US troops. Try parsing that sentence from your post. If you speak English, you'll see that the assertion is that innocent Iraqis are getting hte living fuck shot out of them by US Troops, in the USA. Now go dangle your modifiers somewhere else, goddammit! jb4
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Post #220,161
8/19/05 5:27:12 PM
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Re: Ididn't know the USA constituted the whole planet!
"s/in the USA/with the USA/ but anyway:"
Peter
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Post #220,264
8/20/05 9:07:49 PM
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I can parse that for you:
"Shoot to kill is fine, in the USA" == "Shoot-to-kill is considered a fine policy, in the USA" == It's in the USA that the *considering* is done.
So, "Shoot-to-kill *Iraqis in Iraq* is, in the USA, considered a fine policy" == "Shoot-to-kill Iraqis in Iraq is considered a fine policy, in the USA" == "Shoot to kill is fine, in the USA".
So Peter's original unedited sentence *CAN* very fucking well be read as applying to shooting Iraqis in Iraq.
FYI, FWIW, QED, HTH, and all that. (No YMMV, though. 'Coz if it did, it'd be wrong.)
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Post #220,360
8/21/05 10:36:37 PM
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Mah-noor!
And you can take your dangling modifiers and get your ass and Peter's out of my yard.
You see, the double-equals in your equation are badly misplaced.
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #220,378
8/22/05 3:08:40 AM
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Your noor, indeed, not mahn. They're placed *exactly* right.
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Post #220,401
8/22/05 9:30:40 AM
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And all this time, I was amazed at your mastery...
...of what was for you a foreign language. I see now that my admiration was somewhat misplaced.
FYI, the word "fine" does not mean "is considered a fine policy", at least in English (and to the best of my limited experience, not in German either; I don't know Finnish, so YMMV.)
jb4
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Post #220,407
8/22/05 10:20:57 AM
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The question wasn't about the WORD, "fine"...
...but the PHRASE, "is fine". Here are some varations on it:
- "Whaddayamean, Grelzakianism 'is fine'?"
- "Well, Grelzakianism is fine with me!"
- "Grelzakianism might 'be fine' where *you* live... But not here."
- "What, is Grelzakianism not fine in Finland?!?"
- "That's funny; Grelzakianism is perfectly fine in the USA."
So, you're saying the prase "is fine" in this fictional conversation is NOT about how "Grelzakianism" (whatever the fuck that may be; say, a policy) is regarded?!?
And here *I* had been reasonably... Well, let's say, satisfied -- with *your* grasp of English. But now I see that *my* impression may have been somewhat exaggerated.
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