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Rape does not have a non-sexual context.

by mlent 14y ago

samuellevy 14y ago
Except for when it's a plant (canola, a.k.a. Rape/Rape-seed). I get your point, though, but it was clearly generated by a computer, as are all the other shirts in that companies "KEEP CALM AND ______ ON" line. Most of them don't make any sense whatsoever. The computer doesn't "mean" any particular use of the word, because it's a computer, and couldn't tell the contextual difference between "rape" and "yell" or "run". The fault here is a poorly (or not at all) checked pool of words, and no human interaction between "generate slogan" and "submit to Amazon"
will_brown 14y ago
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=raping http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=raping The dictionary gives 3 examples of rape in a non-sexual context. Again, know that I am not saying the t-shirt was not offensive or in bad taste generally, I certainly would never buy it or wear it if given to me (no one I know would give it to me). At the same time, in a hypothetical where an automated Google car hit someone, would it make sense to yell and the Google car and say watch where you are going? See in this exagerated example, it becomes clear I am soliciting insight to human interaction to an automated system that did not have intent.
angersock 14y ago
I suspect that the English "rape" has its roots in the Latin "rapio", which is very much not about sexual conduct--though the meaning clearly could be mutated over time (as it seems to have been) to mean forced intercourse. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapio http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapio EDIT: For a further stack trace, consider "enrapture", derived from "rapture", itself derived from the future form of "rapio": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapture http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapture . And people say that a classical education and liberal arts is useless. :)
- KC8ZKF 14y ago
  "The rape of the Sabine women", to give an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
- mlent 14y ago
  Hah! I actually majored in Latin in college -- and it was certainly disturbing to learn the etymology of the word 'rape'.

Rape does not have a non-sexual context.

by mlent 14y ago

Rape does not have a non-sexual context.

Except for when it's a plant (canola, a.k.a. Rape/Rape-seed). I get your point, though, but it was clearly generated by a computer, as are all the other shirts in that companies "KEEP CALM AND ______ ON" line. Most of them don't make any sense whatsoever. The computer doesn't "mean" any particular use of the word, because it's a computer, and couldn't tell the contextual difference between "rape" and "yell" or "run". The fault here is a poorly (or not at all) checked pool of words, and no human interaction between "generate slogan" and "submit to Amazon"

will_brown 14y ago

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=raping http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=raping The dictionary gives 3 examples of rape in a non-sexual context. Again, know that I am not saying the t-shirt was not offensive or in bad taste generally, I certainly would never buy it or wear it if given to me (no one I know would give it to me). At the same time, in a hypothetical where an automated Google car hit someone, would it make sense to yell and the Google car and say watch where you are going? See in this exagerated example, it becomes clear I am soliciting insight to human interaction to an automated system that did not have intent.

angersock 14y ago

I suspect that the English "rape" has its roots in the Latin "rapio", which is very much not about sexual conduct--though the meaning clearly could be mutated over time (as it seems to have been) to mean forced intercourse. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapio http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapio EDIT: For a further stack trace, consider "enrapture", derived from "rapture", itself derived from the future form of "rapio": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapture http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapture . And people say that a classical education and liberal arts is useless. :)

KC8ZKF 14y ago
"The rape of the Sabine women", to give an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
mlent 14y ago
Hah! I actually majored in Latin in college -- and it was certainly disturbing to learn the etymology of the word 'rape'.