Dealing with a special kind of co-worker
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@xaade said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
@RaceProUK said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
@xaade said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
If you're entirely descriptivist, then you're going to spawn off dialects too rapidly, and eventually separate languages, and that's not good for the integrity of communication.
The Chinese solved that problem by using the same writing system across all their languages.
That's why you have Mandarin, Cantonese, and any number more than I don't immediately recognize the name.
Then you have Japanese, but I'm not certain how they ended up with the same symbols, whether before or after adoption.
That's easy. They periodically go send ninjas over to steal characters.
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@xaade said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
Then you have Japanese, but I'm not certain how they ended up with the same symbols, whether before or after adoption.
I'd love the answer to be
@e4tmyl33t said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
They periodically go send ninjas over to steal characters.
But, sadly, the truth is simply the Japanese use Chinese characters because China once invaded Japan.
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@RaceProUK That's what the ninjas want you to think.
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@xaade said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
Then you have Japanese,
a single language with at least three separate writing systems.
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@ThaMe90 said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
how you deal with your (annoying) co-worker(s) on a daily basis. Any advice?
Polish your passive aggression skills.
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@anotherusername said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
@Lorne-Kates said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
@Jaloopa said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
Acid test: would it be grammatically correct to say "I" or "Me" if there wasn't another person involved in the sentence?
Acid test: when someone bitches about my grammar, I throw acid in their face.
Really... what do you do if they bitch about your gramper?
Same thing. Acid in grammar's face.
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@xaade said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
If you're entirely prescriptivist, then you're going to inevitably be ignored.
bzzzzt
split infinitive
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@flabdablet said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
split infinitive
You say this like it's a bad thing:
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@lucas1 said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
@RaceProUK said in Dealing with a special kind of co-worker:
The Chinese
Racist!!!
I feel obligated to upvote this post since @lucas1 figured out how to include a quote from the post to which he replied.