I don't believe that's a plausible future. But even if I did, I wouldn't be too worried about it. I think people who write books have every write to prevent people from reading them, if they so desire. The only absurd bit is the "prison for many years".
I don't understand that as it is, and here we are in 2006, so I don't think anything will really have changed lots of years down the road.
Anyway, everyone 1000 years from now will speak some other language, let's say Neo-English. The language of 2006 is just English. Even 1000 years from now, there will be some scholars who are able to read English, even though their native language is Neo-English. I mean, people can read Latin nowadays, and English is much better documented than that was (I don't think there were Latin dictionaries, for instance.)
Still not the same. We're talking about caring about the public domain as a whole, not a particular work within it. Incidentally, why come up with convoluted examples when "The public domain should be cared about" works just fine?
This meaning is what all English speakers understand. Your meaning (the original meaning) is a piece of jargon only used by a few academics. Yes, it was the original meaning, but the meaning has changed. Get over it. In other news, "decimate" no longer means "to destroy 10% of something". Get over it.
No... that wouldn't hurt the Chinese companies at all. They already have his money. It'd be like when people bought French wine and poured it out on the street to protest France's non-involvement in the current war.
Yes, it does. As we are not talking about the formal study of argumentation here, "to beg the question" means exactly the same thing as "to raise the question".
Dude, I totally liked your comment until you ruined it by trying to sound cosmopolitan. Use of accents in words that originated in foreign languages but have long been part of our accentless English is incredibly pretentious. Not only that, but it was something unexpected, and so it quite significantly jarred me out of "reading mode", making your comment more difficult and laborious to read.
I'm 16 years old, and although I try to be more modest than this, I'm much smarter than nearly all of the adults I know, and more mature than a lot of them. I know you're going to think to yourself, "uhh, this is just some 16-year-old kid who thinks his parents are dumb." Not true. I'm aware that there are as many smart adults as smart teens, and that there are a huge load of very immature teens. I simply don't like either being blamed for immaturity or being discarded as irrelevant collateral damage.
So in conclusion, I'd like to politely suggest that you fuckslap your mom's cock back into her own cunt, you uncle-fucking rapist of midgets and priests.
It's not the word itself, it's how you're using it. "Nigger" is used here (as almost everywhere else) as a perjorative, thus it's exactly the same as saying "you Black" in an insulting manner. Both can be extremely offensive.
Yes you can. The theory of relativity predicts a lot of things that have been well-observed. As for the other one, I'm sure everyone has experience with electricity.
I think speaking Russian makes you smarter. I tried to learn it long ago, and anyone who can fit all that in their head (even if they learned it naturally as a child) is a genius. I think I gave up sometime around the genetive plural case.
Whatever you're reading sucks. Every material I've ever seen for learning a language explains what "subjunctive" means, if indeed that language has a subjunctive mood.
The word "discotheque" came from French by adding "disque" to part of "bibliotheque". "theque" and "disque" may well have come from Greek, but they went through French before becoming "discotheque".
This is a tired argument that's been gone over many, many times on/. in the past.
My solution is a socialist one. Have governments fund drug research 100%, and make the drugs available for free. Raise taxes if you must. This solves all the problems.
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All encyclopedias (encyclopediae?), whether they be Brittanica, Wikipedia, or whatnot, are less accurate than real scientific journals.
I don't believe that's a plausible future. But even if I did, I wouldn't be too worried about it. I think people who write books have every write to prevent people from reading them, if they so desire. The only absurd bit is the "prison for many years".
Well, we've got Modern English now, maybe 2006's English will still be called Modern English.
Leaving them to classify their own language as, you guessed it, POSTMODERN ENGLISH!
That's very true, but doesn't really change the point of what I'm saying.
I don't understand that as it is, and here we are in 2006, so I don't think anything will really have changed lots of years down the road.
Anyway, everyone 1000 years from now will speak some other language, let's say Neo-English. The language of 2006 is just English. Even 1000 years from now, there will be some scholars who are able to read English, even though their native language is Neo-English. I mean, people can read Latin nowadays, and English is much better documented than that was (I don't think there were Latin dictionaries, for instance.)
"It is really unlikely that you will get consensus on what to change them to."
Still not the same. We're talking about caring about the public domain as a whole, not a particular work within it. Incidentally, why come up with convoluted examples when "The public domain should be cared about" works just fine?
I'm not using a technical term. I'm using a common English-language idiom. If I was using it as a technical term, well, then we'd have a problem.
I know the real meaning of the term.
To beg the question (v):
1) To raise the question
This meaning is what all English speakers understand. Your meaning (the original meaning) is a piece of jargon only used by a few academics. Yes, it was the original meaning, but the meaning has changed. Get over it. In other news, "decimate" no longer means "to destroy 10% of something". Get over it.
No... that wouldn't hurt the Chinese companies at all. They already have his money. It'd be like when people bought French wine and poured it out on the street to protest France's non-involvement in the current war.
Yes, it does. As we are not talking about the formal study of argumentation here, "to beg the question" means exactly the same thing as "to raise the question".
If you are somewhere where you're able to talk into a cellphone anyway, why in the world wouldn't you just call someone?
Dude, I totally liked your comment until you ruined it by trying to sound cosmopolitan. Use of accents in words that originated in foreign languages but have long been part of our accentless English is incredibly pretentious. Not only that, but it was something unexpected, and so it quite significantly jarred me out of "reading mode", making your comment more difficult and laborious to read.
In the future, you little , please refrain.
Hey man,
I'm 16 years old, and although I try to be more modest than this, I'm much smarter than nearly all of the adults I know, and more mature than a lot of them. I know you're going to think to yourself, "uhh, this is just some 16-year-old kid who thinks his parents are dumb." Not true. I'm aware that there are as many smart adults as smart teens, and that there are a huge load of very immature teens. I simply don't like either being blamed for immaturity or being discarded as irrelevant collateral damage.
So in conclusion,
I'd like to politely suggest that you fuckslap your mom's cock back into her own cunt, you uncle-fucking rapist of midgets and priests.
It's not the word itself, it's how you're using it. "Nigger" is used here (as almost everywhere else) as a perjorative, thus it's exactly the same as saying "you Black" in an insulting manner. Both can be extremely offensive.
Yes you can. The theory of relativity predicts a lot of things that have been well-observed. As for the other one, I'm sure everyone has experience with electricity.
I think speaking Russian makes you smarter. I tried to learn it long ago, and anyone who can fit all that in their head (even if they learned it naturally as a child) is a genius. I think I gave up sometime around the genetive plural case.
Whatever you're reading sucks. Every material I've ever seen for learning a language explains what "subjunctive" means, if indeed that language has a subjunctive mood.
Really? I know both C++ and DOS bs are turing-complete, but why does that make DOS bs C++-complete?
The word "discotheque" came from French by adding "disque" to part of "bibliotheque". "theque" and "disque" may well have come from Greek, but they went through French before becoming "discotheque".
Most people don't know what those are. Try the Theory of Gravity and the Theory that the Planets Revolve around the Sun.
Discothèque means "Discbrary".
It's a combination of the French words for "disc" and "library".
This is a tired argument that's been gone over many, many times on /. in the past.
My solution is a socialist one. Have governments fund drug research 100%, and make the drugs available for free. Raise taxes if you must. This solves all the problems.
Since when is the big bang not a theory.
It is, and so is evolution, and so is the idea that gravity exists. What is your point?
I've never heard it, maybe it's a chiefly British thing.