Reading comprehension
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@lucas1 Difficult.
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@flabdablet I dunno you tell me mate?
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@lucas1 BESH mate aaaaaahhhaa haaa luvvim
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@flabdablet I dunno how your best mate is being difficult. Maybe you should speak to him. This isn't really relevant to the discussion at hand.
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@tufty Some of them say "Pork Rinds" instead of "Pork Scratchings". At these time I think we should have invaded a second time.
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To be fair, lucas takes the piss a bit, and he seems to be hated around here. So he responds in kind. That
isn't being a yob, that is standing up to people being cunts for no reason.
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
lucas takes the piss a bit
Takes far more of it than is going to be kind to his liver, near as I can tell.
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I am drinking green tea at this moment.
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@flabdablet As in jokes around, you lightweight saddo.
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@GodEmperor You should be saying "Low Energy".
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@lucas1 said in Reading comprehension:
I didn't pause when saying "yes you are right" and thus doesn't need a comma
It does need a comma as it's an interjection (the second time I've typed that word today).
Don't even think about arguing ;)
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@coldandtired It isn't an interjection.
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@lucas1 What did I say?
I'll give you that one for free, but you're punching far above your weight.
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@coldandtired How was it an interjection?
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
lightweight
They don't even need to whoosh to get past you. Moderate walking pace suffices.
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
To be fair, lucas takes the piss a bit, and he seems to be hated around here. So he responds in kind. That
isn't being a yob, that is standing up to people being cunts for no reason.Thank you for explaining life to us.
If you're not Lucas, go fuck yourself. Lucas can take good care of himself and he doesn't need your downvotes and third rate psychology.
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@coldandtired You seem to confuse how I said it, with how I was supposed to say it.
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@kt_ Considering that he was ok with me doing it, you're the one that can go fuck yourself, you fucking bellend. That goes for Yami as well. Social Justice is cancer.
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@kt_ tbh even if I wasn't, I could give a shit.
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
bellend.
Finally this derailment became beneficial: I didn't know that word.
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@kt_ It is term from "Great Britain"
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ Considering that he was ok with me doing it, you're the one that can go fuck yourself, you fucking bellend.
Huh?
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@kt_ That would be the latter part of the definition in your case. See, I'm teaching you new words!
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ That would be the latter part of the definition in your case. See, I'm teaching you new words!
I meant the Brit part. Lucas?
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@kt_ No, I'm not lucas. I live in the US.
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ Considering that he was ok with me doing it, you're the one that can go fuck yourself, you fucking bellend. That goes for Yami as well. Social Justice is cancer.
@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ No, I'm not lucas. I live in the US.
You a transplant, then? Never heard anyone here say British terms like you do.
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@coldandtired said in Reading comprehension:
It might be bias, but US English just hurts my sensibilities.
No, it's intentional.
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
To be fair, lucas takes the piss a bit, and he seems to be hated around here.
If you haven't managed to make a part of this place hate you a little bit then you're .
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@flabdablet Which comes from a book written by a Brit (despite it's title).
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@Erufael No, I just happen to talk to two English people online a lot and the slang terms they use rub off. But I do have English ancestry.
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@kt_ It means you are a penis.
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@lucas1 said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ It means you are a penis.
It means you failed at reading comprehension.
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@kt_ Is that Dawkins?
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@kt_ It means your mum failed at reading comprehension. inb4 "Your trolling is shit and you are an obnoxious cunt".
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ It means your mum failed at reading comprehension. inb4 "Your trolling is shit and you are an obnoxious cunt".
You still don't get it. This one would actually be fine. I'd upvote that! :D
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@GodEmperor said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ Is that Dawkins?
Yes it is. I wanted to buy that shirt, but they don't ship to Europe. :(
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@Yamikuronue said in Reading comprehension:
Also, brits can say "don't let's X" instead of "let's not X".
It's pretty archaic. I'd be mildly surprised to hear someone actually say it like that
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@Jaloopa said in Reading comprehension:
@Yamikuronue said in Reading comprehension:
Also, brits can say "don't let's X" instead of "let's not X".
It's pretty archaic. I'd be mildly surprised to hear someone actually say it like that
I think I've seen it used only by Ayn Rand, actually.
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@kt_ It was also used by Phillip Pulman.
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Since there is a thread about that, something I just read this morning:
I'm reading the Illuminatus! Trilogy and among the various vernacular and idioms that I think are very, very dated from the 70's, this morning I got to a part where characters are partly breaking the fourth wall and discussing whether they are actually characters in a book (I guess with a book that old, there is no harm in spoiling it a bit? plus that doesn't tell much about the story anyway...).
The part that I did not get was that they are discussing whether the book they're in should be "low-camp" or "high-camp". What does that mean?
I know that "camp" is (was?) used as, basically, a synonym of "gay" (not quite, but that's the closest I can think of). But I have no clue what high or low camp is?
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@remi Camp in the same way as the 60s Batman TV show was. It's not gay, but it knows it shouldn't be taken seriously and has fun with that.
I suppose high or low camp would be to what degree it embraces that.
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@Jaloopa Uh, I thought there was definitively a notion of "gay" in "camp"? Am I mistaken, or maybe it's only British English?
But yeah, over the top and not too serious about it does fit better the book (well, that would be a good description of the book itself, regardless of what characters in it are saying about it!).
The use in the book seemed to imply that there is a fairly official definition of low-camp vs. high-camp, but that may just be my reading.
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@remi a camp person is someone who displays all of the stereotypical gay behaviours. It doesn't necessarily mean gay, but most camp people do seem to be.
The book would have been referring to this meaning
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@remi said in Reading comprehension:
I thought there was definitively a notion of "gay" in "camp"?
The definition of Camp is about what Jaloopa said, but the usual place you see it used today (since we've rejected Camp as being "juvenile" these days) is the particular form of campiness that gay people sometimes inflect into their actions.
This is a gay guy that's camp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvofVZ76XHsThis is a gay guy that's not camp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4nI1EwqP1AThis is a straight guy in a show that's camp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKYQvP0zQ0This is a bunch of drag queens being camp and also amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThM7qPKtN20
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@Jaloopa Ah, right, thanks. I wouldn't have thought that there would be a wiki page for that!
I see that it does say that "in the UK, on the other hand, camp is an adjective, often associated with a stereotypical view of feminine gay men", which is probably why I had this meaning in mind (ESL and spent a lot of time in the UK).
Also, I wandered on the page for the book and it happens to cite the passage I was reading this morning, in the "self-reference" section:
Hagbard Celine claims towards the climax that the entire story is a computer-generated synthesis of random conspiracies: [...] I programmed [a computer] to put it in the form of a novel for easy reading. Considering what a lousy job he does at poetry, I suppose it will be a high-camp novel, intentionally or unintentionally."
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More confusingly "Gay" can either mean a homosexual or something is a bit rubbish.