c/microblogmemes · by PugJesus@piefed.social · 337d

Verily, I shake mine head

360 points · 18 comments · view on lemmy.world

18 Comments

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 337d (4 replies)

It's purely anecdotal and I've nothing to back this up, but 90% of answers to a debate that starts with "so..." are poorly constructed, cherry pick arguments, and have little understanding of the context of the discussion.

It's infuriating.

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 21 pts · 337d

So you're saying we piss on the poor?

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 337d

So you're saying all arguments phrased otherwise are solid?

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

So it is ok to claim something with nothing to back it up?

Cassanderer@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 337d

So what are you trying to say?

MotoAsh@piefed.social · 10 pts · 337d (2 replies)

Also gotta love the dummies that invariably respond with, "lol nobody does that" when you explain it to them.

TheBat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d (1 reply)

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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 337d

So you hate potatoes??

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 9 pts · 337d

Dydde Shackethpear knoweth aboute ye humbleth potateth? Methinkth hee didtht pothiblie notte.

KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 337d (3 replies)

The "So doth hates potatoes?" quote confused me because there's no pronoun (doth is a verb)

It should be more like "So thou hatest potatoes" or something

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 337d

Thouest dothest hatest potatoeseth?

Cassanderer@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Doth thou hate potaters sounds right

egrets@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d

I'm not a linguist, and the timeline here is vague, but two things:

We're in the second-person singular, so "dost", not "doth"
Using the auxiliary verb ("do-support") is a fairly modern construct at least in written English; "hatest thou" would be more likely.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d (2 replies)

Pretty much Lemmy when one leftist criticizes the strategy of the left. “Oh dissent? You must be MAGA!”

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d

you are criticizing something from lemmy? are you some sort of MAGA lib?

Okokimup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d

Even worse: a lib.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 337d

It's a classic debate rhetoric (with no argumental value) that is a staple since classic ancient times.

Should we have outgrown it by now?
Perhaps it (& similar stuff) is holding us back?

In science (but not necessarily scientific community) such things have no place.
It barely has a place in philosophy.

sundray@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 337d

Uh... forsooth?

Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d

Now I’m laughing at my friend group from when we were teenagers.

One proclaimed that they weren’t a fan of breasts with tiny little nipples.

He was immediately branded as the guy who loves huge dinner plate sized nipples.

There was no in between for us back then.