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not for the joke it isn't; i am not, in fact, thinking of the racial slur; we all have google (but not all of us will idly assume to know the etymology of a pro
by jcahill 4y ago
not for the joke it isn't; i am not, in fact, thinking of the racial slur; we all have google (but not all of us will idly assume to know the etymology of a project's name based on this); semicolons are awful punctuation
- pritambaral 4y agoWho said anything about "racial slur"s? In Urdu, one of the languages I speak, "kaffir" means "non-believer". Your suggestions 'mushrik' and 'neocon' seemed to fit pretty perfectly with that interpretation. ---- Aside: semicolons are pretty great once one learns to wield them. Try it; you'll like it. Just think of it as a shorter pause than a period, but longer than a comma.
- jcahill 4y agothe typical romanization of arabic كافر is "kafir". the typical spelling of the slur associated with apartheid-era south africa is "kaffir". > one of the languages I speak why would i care which languages you speak you are not me i am not you neither of us are everyone else >try it perhaps instead of me doing any of that, you could simply stop arrogating reflexively in your internet comments and presuming to know the inner contents of others' minds (you do not) >semicolons the purpose of your original reply was to condescend in typical nerdsplaining fashion. the reason my reply to you, in turn, was written like it was, including the side mention of semicolons, was to escalate abruptly and unambiguously, such that there was no ambiguity as to what i thought of the situation. i was expressing contempt. it's merely a circumstantial convenience that semicolons do happen to be dogshit punctuation used as epistemic crutch notation in prose
- technothrasher 4y agoHey now, wait a minute. We can argue all day about kefir, kafir, and kaffir, but don't you impinge on the dignity of the semicolon just because the previous poster used one incorrectly.
- jcahill 4y ago
- foldr 4y agoI don’t think it’s an incorrect use of the semicolon. Semicolons are out of fashion these days, but using a semicolon to join two related clauses is perfectly fine, as far as semicolon usage goes.
- cryptonector 4y agoThis.
- jcahill 4y agoepistemic crutch token
- aidenn0 4y agoA semicolon should link two independent clauses; using one to link a clause missing a verb to another clause is arguably incorrect.
- jhgb 4y agoCould you point out where do you see such wrong usage here?
- aidenn0 4y ago> Wrong root word;...
- jhgb 4y agoI don't see the wrong usage there, assuming that "Wrong root word. You're thinking of kaffir." would have been correct. Which it seems to be the case to me since both "Wrong root word." and "You're thinking of kaffir." seem to be correct sentences and juxtaposition is OK as well.
- jhgb 4y ago> semicolons are awful punctuation I'm glad that someone finally admitted that C is crap. Clearly we need fewer C compilers, not more of them! Embrace Smalltalk!