Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: January 23, 2026, 5:12 pm
Atheist Forums › Discussion › Off Topic v
Humans and the silly way we use language.

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
Humans and the silly way we use language.
The Valkyrie Offline
The last smile some will see...
********
Religious Views: Time to end them
Posts: 35867
Threads: 208
Joined: August 13, 2012
Reputation: 146
#11
RE: Humans and the silly way we use language.
November 26, 2014 at 5:03 pm
I don't see Homer successfully climbing the outside of a building.

Even with spiderpig in tow.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
Find
Reply
Tonus Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: Atheist
Posts: 7180
Threads: 12
Joined: March 14, 2013
Reputation: 72
#12
RE: Humans and the silly way we use language.
November 26, 2014 at 5:05 pm
(November 26, 2014 at 4:29 pm)Beccs Wrote: Even as a kid I knew these things!
It's not that people don't know, it's that they're willing to pretend to be outrageously stupid if it means a shot at winning a lawsuit. On the other hand, the law now requires drug manufacturers to list possible side effects of their medications on advertisements, which leads to the unintentionally humorous TV commercials where a fast-talking announcer tries to fit the frightening list of possible consequences into the last 10-15 seconds of air time. It's weird to see 20 seconds of "why this drug will make your life sooo much better" followed by 15 seconds of rapid-fire "may cause heart attack, stroke, cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and death."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
Find
Reply
Brian37 Offline
Previous usernames:
RationalPoet
*****
Religious Views: JGH 1933-2017 RIP MOM
Posts: 30730
Threads: 2124
Joined: May 24, 2012
Reputation: 71
#13
RE: Humans and the silly way we use language.
November 26, 2014 at 5:27 pm
I always wonder why the sign says "Fire Exit". Wait, isn't the entire point to contain the fire?
Poetry by Brian37(poems by an atheist) Also on Facebook as BrianJames Rational Poet and Twitter Brianrrs37  I also have a new blog here at https://www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
Find
Reply
BrianSoddingBoru4 Offline
Power-Drunk Administrator
********
Religious Views: Headology
Posts: 50075
Threads: 556
Joined: July 24, 2013
Reputation: 109
#14
RE: Humans and the silly way we use language.
November 26, 2014 at 5:35 pm
'Hot water heater.' Why would anyone heat HOT water? It should be called with 'a cold water heater' or a 'hot water making gizmo'.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Discussion › Off Topic v
Humans and the silly way we use language.

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Words/Phrases that People Use but Shouldn't AFTT47 24 653 January 19, 2026 at 2:26 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
Thumbs Down Words That People Don’t Use Anymore, But Should BrianSoddingBoru4 61 2121 January 19, 2026 at 6:36 am
Last Post: Rev. Rye
  learning a certain language to communicate to believers and the religious Quill01 13 2639 January 8, 2024 at 9:49 pm
Last Post: neil
  The right way to be and the wrong way to be Ahriman 57 10448 April 29, 2022 at 9:23 am
Last Post: Angrboda
  Some silly trivia questions awty 7 1592 March 29, 2022 at 3:50 pm
Last Post: Pat Mustard
  Ever been treated this way? Strange Vague Story. Disagreeable 18 3768 January 31, 2022 at 1:42 pm
Last Post: Disagreeable
  One thing I hate about the human language. Brian37 13 3174 June 25, 2021 at 11:19 pm
Last Post: Ranjr
  Question regarding language Macoleco 4 1320 June 6, 2021 at 12:35 pm
Last Post: Brian37
  Cold - either way. onlinebiker 12 2112 January 23, 2021 at 8:15 pm
Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
  Silly food. Gawdzilla Sama 19 2939 December 22, 2020 at 9:01 am
Last Post: brewer



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)