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Post #435,767 by Andrew Grygus 8/19/20 6:44:45 PM 8/19/20 6:44:45 PM Reply	Your're pretty sensitive for a guy who . . . . . not at all long ago was promoting barricades and armed revolution in the streets. Perhaps you eventually noticed that here, as in '30s Germany, the Communists are very much outgunned by the Fascists.
Post #435,775 by mmoffitt 8/20/20 8:45:20 AM 8/20/20 8:45:20 AM Reply	I've spent a little time studying Trotsky's last days. Even he was beginning to lose faith that the proletariat were enlightened enough to be allowed to self-govern. These days I'm finding the Leninist idea that we need "professional revolutionaries" to rule more inline with my thinking. Democracy is the disaster Socrates warned us it could become. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.

Let us salute Michelle Obama, perhaps the wisest speaker of them all. Eh? - (Ashton) - (66) - Aug. 17, 2020, 11:12:47 PM EDT

She was great. Really excellent speech. -NT - (Another Scott) - (65) - Aug. 18, 2020, 12:47:57 AM EDT

It was a good speech, but come on. It wasn't "great." Let's not oversell. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (64) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:43:56 AM EDT

Caviling? ... - (Ashton) - (62) - Aug. 18, 2020, 05:40:03 PM EDT

It wasn't a "We will fight them on the beaches" speech. - (mmoffitt) - (61) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:08:10 AM EDT

Man, the things you let yourself get hung up on ... -NT - (drook) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:39:53 AM EDT

She had a dry mouth. - (crazy) - (49) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:56:47 AM EDT

I said it was a good speech. - (mmoffitt) - (46) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:14:02 PM EDT

On same-page re the 'grating' but, - (Ashton) - Aug. 19, 2020, 05:07:43 PM EDT

Your're pretty sensitive for a guy who . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 06:44:45 PM EDT

I've spent a little time studying Trotsky's last days. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:45:20 AM EDT

Reasonable point on recording - (crazy) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:25:18 AM EDT

Who TF does that? - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:31:00 AM EDT

It's not lazy and it's only grating to ... - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:46:49 AM EDT

You don't understand accents or dialect - (pwhysall) - (39) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:41:30 AM EDT

Interesting comparison ie: BBC News reader - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:49:56 AM EDT

Took a dialect class during my year as a drama major - (drook) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:52:16 AM EDT

Many years have passed since we spoke... - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:01:37 PM EDT

I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (mmoffitt) - (35) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:13:18 PM EDT

Still missing the main point - (drook) - (20) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:32:48 PM EDT

He's made it clear - (crazy) - (19) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:53:46 PM EDT

Would that be... - (malraux) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:20:37 PM EDT

s/fear/aversion. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (17) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:27:31 PM EDT

And the reason for the aversion is? - (crazy) - (16) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:33:57 PM EDT

What Weingarten said. "...no English word should be pronounced with a “shtr” sound." -NT - (mmoffitt) - (15) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:35:45 PM EDT

Have you heard him speak? - (pwhysall) - (14) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:21:12 PM EDT

Heh. "Criticizing her." Because I said her speech was good? - (mmoffitt) - (13) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:55:13 PM EDT

You damned with faint praise and then went on with insults. -NT - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:58:18 PM EDT

That's not all you said - (drook) - (11) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:00:35 PM EDT

I replied to Box, below re 'Language Itself' This for you: - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:21 PM EDT

IT IS *NOT* A DIALECT ISSUE. DIALECTS ARE TIED TO REGIONS OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE. - (mmoffitt) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:20:10 AM EDT

what about frogtalking? woman rasping like a frog on purpose not regional put epidemic -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:56:37 AM EDT

Vocal fry - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:08:52 PM EDT

Thank you /thank you: a Keeper. [Ed}. - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:32:40 PM EDT

Lighten up, Francis - (drook) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:07:07 PM EDT

Because he needs to find fault to feel superior - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:48:25 PM EDT

Yeah. Right. I *feel* proper pronunciation is important. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 21, 2020, 01:59:53 PM EDT

C'mon crazy: 'Projection' is reserved /expected from the forces of The Menace, not the sentient. -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:59:12 PM EDT

Ha. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 02:02:13 PM EDT

Because the 4th is *also true* -NT - (drook) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:41:10 PM EDT

Re: I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:07:33 PM EDT

(I use 'thee and thou'; I don't confusicate Stuff with Schtuff and I still think doing-so: Sch-ucks - (Ashton) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:32:31 PM EDT

Speaking of which... - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:50:39 PM EDT

Heh! never þought I Be prescient.. but feels nice ever to be a þorn ..in any Repoþ's jelloware :-) - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2020, 12:41:47 AM EDT

I don't watch much TV of any sort these days. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:27:50 PM EDT

Just informing is all: no need to proselytize re authentic virtuosi, I wot.:-) -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:03:57 PM EDT

Well, are you sure this isn't actually restoration . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:23:32 PM EDT

English is more like Scandinavian than German - (malraux) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:05 PM EDT

English is a thieving language. - (static) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:04:30 PM EDT

That has always been the way English works. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:00:40 PM EDT

..and that's a Keeper too; your encyclopædia Rocks - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2020, 04:08:23 PM EDT

I wrote "Germanic", not German. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:39:43 PM EDT

Going the other way - (scoenye) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 09:28:58 PM EDT

I recall reading that the King's / Queen's English . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 21, 2020, 10:31:13 PM EDT

Nice.. I'd missed your subtle, obvious point. - (Ashton) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:34:35 PM EDT

Rosalynn Carter is class through and through. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:52:09 PM EDT

wat - (pwhysall) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2020, 10:07:26 AM EDT

We stopped taking lessons from you lot over two centuries ago. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:16:27 PM EDT

Y'all can believe that if you like - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:15:35 AM EDT

Also. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:12:18 AM EDT

pronounce it like its spelled, lout -NT - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:25:16 PM EDT

I was being a smartass. You know the Brits have a different word for it, right? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 01:55:37 PM EDT

no, you spelled it wrong as well -NT - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:40:38 PM EDT

Not here or in Canada. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:43:33 PM EDT

so proper speech depends on locale? good to know -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:26:32 PM EDT

Oui. Da. ¡Si! Sehrgut, as in ... Duh: Matey, Señor .. ... -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:41:21 PM EDT

Yeah, and tRump said it was not live but pre-recorded. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:09:20 PM EDT

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