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Posted 2007-05-26, 05:13 PM
in reply to hotdog's post starting "You realize that what Grav said was..."
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hotdog said:
You realize that what Grav said was purely what is called "Hillbilly Talk" right? Oh wait nevermind your only human you would never understand.
How can a deaf man look any different from a man who can hear just fine? Dumb = Deaf not stupid. Also in laying out his trap he got caught in it.
Now he has two choices. He can either own up to his lack of knowledge concerning the english language like a true man and someone befitting of the title "admin" would...Or he can be stubborn and lose face by not owning up to his mistake.
By picking the latter I won't have to kick his ass so hard he no longer retains human shape, not that I could anyway because he lost human shape already after he got addicted to food, and I don't feel like reprimanding a human today.
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Nice technical mistake, numbnuts. I hope you fall off a latter.
Lenny, dumb does not mean deaf in "American." Unless hotdog is posting here from the eighteenth century.
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dumb /dÊŒm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[duhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, -er, -est, verb
–adjective
1. lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
2. lacking the power of speech (often offensive when applied to humans): a dumb animal.
3. temporarily unable to speak: dumb with astonishment.
4. refraining from any or much speech; silent.
5. made, done, etc., without speech.
6. lacking some usual property, characteristic, etc.
7. performed in pantomime; mimed.
8. Computers. pertaining to the inability to do processing locally: A dumb terminal can input, output, and display data, but cannot process it. Compare intelligent (def. 4).
9. Nautical.
a. (of a barge) without means of propulsion.
b. (of any craft) without means of propulsion, steering, or signaling.
—Verb phrase
10. dumb down, Informal. to make or become less intellectual, simpler, or less sophisticated: to dumb down a textbook; American movies have dumbed down.
Our Living Language : In ordinary spoken English, a sentence such as He is dumb will be interpreted to mean "He is stupid" rather than "He lacks the power of speech." "Lacking the power of speech" is, however, the original sense of the word, but it has been eclipsed by the meaning "stupid." For this change in meaning, it appears that the Germans are responsible. German has a similar and related word dumm that means "stupid," and over time, as a result of the waves of German immigrants to the United States, it has come to influence the meaning of English dumb. This is one of dozens of marks left by German on American English. Some words, like kindergarten, dachshund, and schnapps still have a German feel or are associated to some extent with Germany, but others, like bum, cookbook, fresh (in the meaning "impertinent"), rifle, and noodle have become so thoroughly Americanized their German origins may surprise some.
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I will once again attest to how utterly, utterly stupid hotdog is. The word is "vernacular." Learn to love it.
Last edited by GravitonSurge; 2007-05-26 at 05:15 PM.
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