(May 24, 2013 at 2:56 am)littleendian Wrote:(May 23, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Because that'd be mighty speciesist. Perhaps you might consider the strength of the hyphen?That's a bit cerebral, as they say in Aikido, not everything gets improved by thinking it all the way through.
Ai! The kidos are running around like monkeys. BREAKING DISHES. Bad dandelions.
Honey, I often know full well what you mean, regardless of how many horrendous inaccuracies or tremendous errors you might make... but if you're going to attempt to mock a person on a lingual basis: you'd better be very sure that you've not made your mockery a travesty of self-ridicule.
Unless your very intention is to look stupid... by all means: do not allow me stop you (if this is the case)
Quote:(May 23, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: The hyphen looks like this: -Gee, thanks, I'll forever be in your debt!
I gave you a gift... not a loan. You're in no debt to me.
Quote:Maybe consider that for some people English is not their first language. We have no use for the mighty hyphen in my native language, German, we just combine the words without inefficient extra lines in between:
Maybe consider taking this as a learning experience.
I'm well aware of the retarded clusterfuck that is the German language. English is no such mess, and does not deserve the horrid mistreatment many of her speakers force upon her.
Quote:Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitaensmuetzenaufhaengung!
Oh yeah! And that's already sparing you the äöüß!
No need to spare me... if I was interested in learning: I'd ask. Unfortunately, I'm not on a German forum, and thus I won't learn anything even if I did ask. Nothing to practice with, nobody to tell me I've done everything wrongly.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day