Most of the time when people point out "incorrect grammar" on the internet they're actually pointing out incorrect punctuation.
For example:
"Your holding it wrong" = incorrect punctuation (i.e. read it out loud, it's still 'makes sense');
vs.
"She run home" = incorrect grammar (i.e. read out loud and it's obviously wrong).
So when you think you're being a "Grammar Nazi" on the internet, you're probably, actually trying to be a Punctuation Nazi. Don't mistake the wood for the trees; the metaphor for the message and orthography rules for the language rules. It's actually the other way around.
On the other hand we have racially imposed divisions and classifications, such as the American coinage of Latina, which creates a new racial category (Hispanic, female) so we can pigeonhole yet another group. What is more ironic is that the supposedly enlightened intellectual liberal left were the main drivers behind this new racial label.
Ah... I have experience with this. "Korean-American": it's like saying you're half-pregnant.
Hint: either you're Korean or you're American. Pick one. You can't be both. (And no, I'm not talking about dual citizenship, that's a different thing altogether.) And where your parents were born or what languages you (claim) you can speak doesn't factor into it.
I'll also add that this applies to all the other "[demonym]-American" self-identifying groups out there, too.
Windows: Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, non-obnoxious, and works well. The Windows Firewall is fine. No need for extra stuff.
I agree about Security Essentials, one of the best products that Microsoft have made in years. Small, compact, does the job well.
For more control over the in-built Windows Firewall I find the aptly-name Windows 7 Firewall Control program a handy tool to add outgoing connection alerting/control to the Windows firewall which has saved my bacon a few times.
You can find direct links to the free version(s) in the forum, here.
In short, he said that the way chinese count gives them an edge in learning calculus, because the chinese say the number 13 as "three and ten"...
Yes, fwiw, actually it's "ten [and] three" ("shi + san" in Mandarin) and all the Chinese languages with Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese (plus more) all cognate that morphology as well. Did Gladwell factor that in too?
From your comment I'll assume that he just zeroed in on DEH CHINEIZE like all the rest, as it seems to be all the rage (in more ways than one), right now.
Qualifications: I'm an academic here at a university in South Korea and also got my post-graduate degree here. I've been here for 10 years now. My major is Asian Studies (fwiw).
This is not surprising in the least. (South) Korea is a *very* Christian country underneath its modern veneer: it was one of the very few success stories that the European missionaries had in East Asia. (Ricci et. al. had basically come to an academic/intellectual impasse with the Chinese while trying to introduce their religion, while the Japanese either chased the missionaries away or cut their heads off—an effective deterrent.) Christian missionaries came rather later to Korea (Choseon) but found that their religion was "compatible" to a degree with Korean society's in-built sense of post-Confucianist conservatism and community, and therefore it slotted in well with Korean (Choseon) world-view at the time. Christianity had a *huge* impact on Korea(s) history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Fast-forward and we now have the most Christian county in East Asia. South Korea is now the world's second largest source, after The USA, of 'foreign' missionaries. The passing of the above textbook guidelines is, unfortunately, not surprising in the least: the Christian lobby here in South Korea has a very powerful grip on politics, in particular on the ruling conservative Saenuri Party who are very dependent on their very conservative (and rural) electorate.
An interesting factoid: unlike other places in the world (?) it is not the Catholics who are the aggressive, "fire-and-brimstone" Bible-bashing Christians here in Korea, it's actually the Presbyterians (Protestants). The Catholics here (the minority) are actually quite laid-back, as I have experienced.
1. Microsoft release Windows 8. Every hates it because the Metro interface treats them like they're fucking morons who don't know what a mouse is.
2. Pirate group releases a version of Win8 that has slip-streamed ddl's (or whatever), from Windows 7, making Windows 8 the same as Win7 with the start menu, but with Win8 menus, files copy dialogs (nice!) and drivers, etc., Is released on tpb, and so on. Becomes an instant, instant hit.
3. OEM's and legitimate home and business customers/purchasers of Win8 also note that their legitimate Win8 keys also work/validate in the setup of the pirate Win8/Win7 hybrid release. (Technically, not even piracy. (ianal.)) Thus, the pirate Win8/7 hybrid release become even *more* popular.
4. Microsoft notice. Issue the usual take-down notices. Then, with GREAT fanfare, they release Windows 8 SP1 (or, Windows 9??)... a virtual clone in contents and scope as the Win8/7 hybrid pirate release. Microsoft claim the "improvements" in SP1 are based on their "own research and feedback"; everyone else in the world thinks, "Oh, yeah, right."
5. During all this time, Ubuntu/Unity will still suck.
My girlfriend is Chinese. Never been to the west, doesn't speak English, in every way a normal Chinese person. She and none of the other Chinese people I know think that way.
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Actually, that line was written by Bernie Taupin.
But, carry on.
Most of the time when people point out "incorrect grammar" on the internet they're actually pointing out incorrect punctuation.
For example:
"Your holding it wrong" = incorrect punctuation (i.e. read it out loud, it's still 'makes sense');
vs.
"She run home" = incorrect grammar (i.e. read out loud and it's obviously wrong).
So when you think you're being a "Grammar Nazi" on the internet, you're probably, actually trying to be a Punctuation Nazi. Don't mistake the wood for the trees; the metaphor for the message and orthography rules for the language rules. It's actually the other way around.
"No, that's the beautiful part, Lisa. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
The *people* are Asian. [Therefore] the *products* and *styles* are Japanese.
FTFY - from the point-of-view of most Western people.
My *guess* (haven't watched video yet, making some big assumptions right here) is that it meant the Latin alphabet, aka the one we're using right now
Speak for yourself!
On the other hand we have racially imposed divisions and classifications, such as the American coinage of Latina, which creates a new racial category (Hispanic, female) so we can pigeonhole yet another group. What is more ironic is that the supposedly enlightened intellectual liberal left were the main drivers behind this new racial label.
Ah... I have experience with this. "Korean-American": it's like saying you're half-pregnant.
Hint: either you're Korean or you're American. Pick one. You can't be both. (And no, I'm not talking about dual citizenship, that's a different thing altogether.) And where your parents were born or what languages you (claim) you can speak doesn't factor into it.
I'll also add that this applies to all the other "[demonym]-American" self-identifying groups out there, too.
And the heatsync.
That's true enough, but unfortunately the few exceptions to "beautiful, intelligent, sane; pick two" that I've found are already taken. :-X
Just for comparison, here's the male version:
Men: handsome, intelligent, rich, or heterosexual; pick any three.
Windows: Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, non-obnoxious, and works well. The Windows Firewall is fine. No need for extra stuff.
I agree about Security Essentials, one of the best products that Microsoft have made in years. Small, compact, does the job well.
For more control over the in-built Windows Firewall I find the aptly-name Windows 7 Firewall Control program a handy tool to add outgoing connection alerting/control to the Windows firewall which has saved my bacon a few times.
You can find direct links to the free version(s) in the forum, here.
Well, I'm sure when you worked at Apple you had to deal both with Bad Steve and then, sometime, if you were lucky, No Steve.
Regardless of good or bad workers, I'm sure everyone who worked there eventually came know that.
It doesn't take an orifice to figure out that oracle is optimistic.
FTFY.
Maybe.
Well, I think I've just worked out the purpose of Windows 8/Metro: this tablet is the missing piece of the puzzle.
It's all makes sense now.
In short, he said that the way chinese count gives them an edge in learning calculus, because the chinese say the number 13 as "three and ten"...
Yes, fwiw, actually it's "ten [and] three" ("shi + san" in Mandarin) and all the Chinese languages with Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese (plus more) all cognate that morphology as well. Did Gladwell factor that in too?
From your comment I'll assume that he just zeroed in on DEH CHINEIZE like all the rest, as it seems to be all the rage (in more ways than one), right now.
Qualifications: I'm an academic here at a university in South Korea and also got my post-graduate degree here. I've been here for 10 years now. My major is Asian Studies (fwiw).
This is not surprising in the least. (South) Korea is a *very* Christian country underneath its modern veneer: it was one of the very few success stories that the European missionaries had in East Asia. (Ricci et. al. had basically come to an academic/intellectual impasse with the Chinese while trying to introduce their religion, while the Japanese either chased the missionaries away or cut their heads off—an effective deterrent.) Christian missionaries came rather later to Korea (Choseon) but found that their religion was "compatible" to a degree with Korean society's in-built sense of post-Confucianist conservatism and community, and therefore it slotted in well with Korean (Choseon) world-view at the time. Christianity had a *huge* impact on Korea(s) history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Fast-forward and we now have the most Christian county in East Asia. South Korea is now the world's second largest source, after The USA, of 'foreign' missionaries. The passing of the above textbook guidelines is, unfortunately, not surprising in the least: the Christian lobby here in South Korea has a very powerful grip on politics, in particular on the ruling conservative Saenuri Party who are very dependent on their very conservative (and rural) electorate.
An interesting factoid: unlike other places in the world (?) it is not the Catholics who are the aggressive, "fire-and-brimstone" Bible-bashing Christians here in Korea, it's actually the Presbyterians (Protestants). The Catholics here (the minority) are actually quite laid-back, as I have experienced.
Mark my words, this is what will go down:
1. Microsoft release Windows 8. Every hates it because the Metro interface treats them like they're fucking morons who don't know what a mouse is.
2. Pirate group releases a version of Win8 that has slip-streamed ddl's (or whatever), from Windows 7, making Windows 8 the same as Win7 with the start menu, but with Win8 menus, files copy dialogs (nice!) and drivers, etc., Is released on tpb, and so on. Becomes an instant, instant hit.
3. OEM's and legitimate home and business customers/purchasers of Win8 also note that their legitimate Win8 keys also work/validate in the setup of the pirate Win8/Win7 hybrid release. (Technically, not even piracy. (ianal.)) Thus, the pirate Win8/7 hybrid release become even *more* popular.
4. Microsoft notice. Issue the usual take-down notices. Then, with GREAT fanfare, they release Windows 8 SP1 (or, Windows 9??)... a virtual clone in contents and scope as the Win8/7 hybrid pirate release. Microsoft claim the "improvements" in SP1 are based on their "own research and feedback"; everyone else in the world thinks, "Oh, yeah, right."
5. During all this time, Ubuntu/Unity will still suck.
This.: make a folder for it somewhere on your system, and always use it as a shortcut to "start" Chromium.
Also keep it in an empty folder on a USB key ready to copy over onto another system: not truly portable, but still useful.
... there was a contest on one of the radioshows for this [...] the gesture that won...
Well, I'm impressed.
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Did he pronounce the apostrophe correctly?
Wow, and you are accusing /them/ of being racist.
My girlfriend is Chinese. Never been to the west, doesn't speak English, in every way a normal Chinese person. She and none of the other Chinese people I know think that way.
http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
Reality? Fact?
http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
Mod parent up "+1 Fucking Scary".
Trade big shipments of river silt (organic sponge), heavy clay, and washed sand. Plow it into unproductive fields that are suffering deficits.
It's what plants crave!!
It seems to work well for normals. They appear to have less issues than the normals running Windows.
I think we can see the source of the problem right here.
Willis?