English language hard language
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Context: me complaining about negative years in a joke about mythical Gauls.
@Gąska said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@boomzilla if I can ask for a tip on English language usage (it ended very badly last time I did that, but whatever, I'm an optimist) - where's the line between discussing a related topic and beating the joke to the ground? How do I recognize that I'm going too far? Or are jokes like gender differences - something I simply shouldn't ever discuss if I don't want people to hate me?
@boomzilla said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@Gąska I dunno, man, but color me at least as upset about this as you are now that I'm acting like @blakeyrat. I will, however, remind everyone that threads are free.
Question: what is @boomzilla upset about? Is he mad at me for my behavior? Is he mad when other people do to him what he does to me? Is it something entirely different? All these appear equally likely to me. How should I understand his post?
And please, no trolling. I really want to know English better.
(BTW the quoted question is still open too.)
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@Gąska said in English language hard language:
Question: what is @boomzilla upset about? Is he mad at me for my behavior? Is he mad when other people do to him what he does to me? Is it something entirely different? All these appear equally likely to me. How should I understand his post?
It just felt to me like the Polandball thread had turned into a tedious discussion about year-arithmetic surrounding AD / BC conventions.
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@boomzilla are you still the same @boomzilla? Why do you suddenly care about things staying on topic?
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@Gąska said in English language hard language:
@boomzilla are you still the same @boomzilla? Why do you suddenly care about things staying on topic?
As I said, I feel dirty making blakeyrants. It wasn't that it was off topic, just tedious, and then there was the opportunity for a Polandball joke, which was thread appropriate, plus recent jabs about your sense of humor vs American senses of humor. Which is to day, trying to rekindle an otherwise funny thread with some simple humor. But that kind of blew up when your focus shifted from AD/BC onto my semi-successful attempt at derailing you.
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@boomzilla said in English language hard language:
It just felt to me like the Polandball thread had turned into a tedious discussion about year-arithmetic surrounding AD / BC conventions.
It's not just you, it also feels that way to me.
And yes, I'm the one who sparkled this tedious discussion, and kept stoking the fire afterwards.
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> be @boomzilla
> accuse people of not being funny
> wonder why the discussion shifted away from funny
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@boomzilla said in English language hard language:
@Gąska said in English language hard language:
@boomzilla are you still the same @boomzilla? Why do you suddenly care about things staying on topic?
As I said, I feel dirty making blakeyrants.
It was pretty tame for a blakeyrant.
I wouldn't really call @boomzilla mad, just borderline rudely criticizing your overextending a joke.
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@The_Quiet_One said in English language hard language:
It was pretty tame for a blakeyrant.
Exactly. No threats about muting the thread. Can we get one here, for compensation?
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Consider using the PM tool for these situations, as there is only one person who can answer your questions
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@bb36e if there was only one person who can answer this, it would mean he sucks at communication, wouldn't it? I gave him the benefit of doubt and assumed what he saiod was perfectly clear to everyone but me.
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@Gąska I guess, but at least in my social circles, if someone says something and I don't understand their behavior, I don't look around the group and say, 'what's this guy's deal??', I instead talk to them privately and ask them what's up /shrug
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@bb36e reply as topic is 2 clicks, PM is 3.
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@cvi said in English language hard language:
@The_Quiet_One said in English language hard language:
It was pretty tame for a blakeyrant.
Exactly. No threats about muting the thread. Can we get one here, for compensation?
Elvis has left the building
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