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How the Internet Is Changing Language
Ant writes "BBC News reports on how the internet is changing language. What was once understandable only to the tech savvy has become common. From the article: 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own Internet slang. But is the Web changing language and is everyone up to speed?'"
LOL THNGS FROM 205 STIL EXIST DUMBAS
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Ah, the endless capacity of apologists to BS themselves by postulating what's not actually in the text. How cute.
Well, no. In Ezekiel 4:13 so sayeth God: "And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." My emphasis. Clearly either that bread recipe from 4:9 is already defiled from the start, or that human shit is defiling it. Either way, it's not some wholesome recipe for good bread, but for defiled bread. No matter how you separate which step is defiling it, it's still not given a recipe for good nutrition.
But more telling is the exchange in 4:14-15:
14. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezekiel is clearly protesting that on account of his purity, and substituting cow dung is somehow making it better. It doesn't sound like he just has a problem with using briquettes.
But most importantly the choice of words in 4:15 makes it clearer what it's meant. "and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith" My emphasis again.
But again, regardless of how you use it, the fact remains that God gave a recipe for defiled bread. A fact that was completely lost on the cretins selling and buying Ezekiel 4:9 bread and actually believing (and some arguing) it's an example of good nutrition as prescribed by the Bible.
And basically that's what I meant by confusing fundies with the real bible. The average lemming doesn't know what's actually in it, and at best goes by some BS apology that has nothing to do with what's actually in there. The lemmings buying that bread and using it as an example of the bible prescribing good nutrition, haven't even read the couple of verses directly after it on the same page. They don't actually _know_ what that quote was actually for when in context.
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At the risk of being serious, factual, and pedantic, you didn't use lowercase "i" for the numeral "1"; you used lowercase "l" (el).
@anyone thinking this is a joke: It's true. Since it was perfectly obvious from the context whether the character was supposed to be a numeral or an alpha character, many typewriters didn't bother including a separate key for the numerals "0" and "1". For example
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