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Holger Dansk wrote:
History makes very little reference to the slaves of the Greeks. http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...greece+slavery 77,500 hits on ancient greece slavery. Look at the first couple. ancient greece mathematics only gets a little more with 112,000 hits. lojbab -- lojbab Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org |
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toto wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:52:41 GMT, Holger Dansk wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:44:45 -0500, toto wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:47:02 GMT, Holger Dansk wrote: Bush speaks excellent English. Here are a few of Bush's malapropisms. http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm "My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2004 Where is the error? He's talking like his audience. "This has been tough weeks in that country." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2004 (note the lack of agreement between subject and verb here) "This" is the subject and "has been" is the verb. They agree very well. Sorry. It should be These have been tough weeks. Or This has been a tough week. I mispoke what the error actually was. "Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty." —George W. Bush, Fort Hood, Texas, April 11, 2004 No big deal here. He doesn't want to see one killed or more than one killed. Then it should be I pray every day there are less casualties. It's still incorrect. Close, but no cigar. The proper statement is, "I pray every day there are fewer casualties." (not bothering with the rest of this -- this particular error annoys me.) meh -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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Charley Brown and Almighty Snoopy wrote:
yep everyone who states the truth be a racist.. --------------------- Racism ain't any truth, you racist ****! Steve |
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 01:57:16 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: History makes very little reference to the slaves of the Greeks. http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...greece+slavery 77,500 hits on ancient greece slavery. Well, you probably didn't go to school, but, if you did, you would probably see that, when you study Ancient Greek Civilization, very little is said about slavery. They concentrate on the vast number of things the Greeks contributed to the world and that western civilization adopted today. Look at the first couple. ancient greece mathematics only gets a little more with 112,000 hits. lojbab Holger http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:54:01 GMT, "Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD"
wrote: "Holger Dansk" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:44:38 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:03:11 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: Those people's labor for themselves would have done such incredible good that it cannot even be fathomed. They wouldn't know what to do. There would not be anyone to tell them what to do. ----------------- They knew what to do, they had been doing it FOR their masters for ages. Just like the black savages in Africa who have killed so many of the white farm owners. They worked in the field on some of these farms, but, after killing the boss, they don't know how to operate the farm so it just becomes a wasteland or goes back to undeveloped land. Holger -------------------- Nonsense, the racist friends of white slavers who had worked the blacks cut off the seed supply, and the republicans here decided not to help them. Sort of: "If us rich white guys can't own it all, then nobody can, even the people who deserve to!" Hehehehehehehe. How ridiculous. Where did you get that clap trap? That's really silly. Laborers can not run businesses. Do you really think that, if all of the management left a general motors or Ford plant, then the laborers could just take it over and run it? Hehehehehehehehehe. Get serious. :-) Holger If you can't see how savage many of the blacks are in Africa, then, I'm sure people feel sorry for you. You don't have a correct conception of what is right and wrong. Brother Holger; I feel that poor Stevie is slipping over the edge, and onto that long slippery slope to becoming a total ranting idiot. Please, continue in your assistance ! Jasper http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:05:20 -0500, toto wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 23:28:05 GMT, Holger Dansk wrote: You proved my point. As far as you are concerned, all *white* people speak good English, even when their English is atrocious (aka GW Bush). Thank you for your honesty. Just because Bush speaks excellent English does not mean all white people do. Bush doesn't speak excellent English though. He cannot pronounce nuclear (neither could some other presidents). He uses incorrect words. His tenses don't agree with the subjects or objects in his sentences. Aside from that his words don't even make sense when he speaks *off the cuff.* Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. Holger http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD wrote:
"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message ... Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD wrote: "R. Steve Walz" wrote in message ... Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD wrote: "R. Steve Walz" wrote in message ... Circe wrote: So what? "High" cultures the world over (and particularly in Europe) had slavery (and children slaves) for thousands of years. One of the reasons that the wealthy in the Greek and Roman culture (who produced most of the art and literature that we admire today) *were* wealthy was because they relied on slave labor to produce surplus goods and earn their money for them. Wow, what a wonderful achievement, eh? ---------------- Actually no, they bred horrible sadness by the thousands of lives. were you there ? ----------------- Sure was. did you actually see this 'horrible sadness' ??? -------------- Oh yes! Those people's labor for themselves would have done such incredible good that it cannot even be fathomed. 'those people' were illiterate.........they would have subsisted, nothing more -------------------- They were deprived of their rightful education in that society. Also, anyway, reading was not much use at that time, a toy, nothing more. Instead it fed and clothed and pampered vain plutocrats and sycophants who made war to steal from all of Europe. and incidentally kept 'those people' from starving due to their own inability to do anything more than simply survive under starvation conditions ----------------------- Nonsense. The slaves did that themselves. Our rich do the same thing today!!! so move to 'Da Mudda Lann' where everyone is poor --------------------------- Ain't any, you ridiculous lying piece of ****! the extent of your intellectual bankruptcy is fully exposed by your remarks above ----------------- No, it isn't, instead YOUR intellectual NON-EXISTENCE is fully exposed by your lamely ignorant and useless posturing without ANY reasoned argument. your total collapse and surrender is accepted ------------------- You mean yours. Steve |
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Holger Dansk wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:25:28 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:39:36 -0700, "Circe" wrote: Dirk wrote: Holger Dansk wrote in message . .. How does anyone think that it is right to not pronounce a lot of common English words correctly? Common English words like Insurance Umbrella Install (commonly misused as a noun, btw) Nuclear I ...? You have to have some loose screws to believe that. I've yet to hear you complain about Southern mispronunciations of the following words. I imagine you think that it's either a) correct, even though the dictionaries I've consulted do not support "INsurance," "UMbrella", INstall", "Nookyouluhr" or "Ah" even as alternative pronunciations; or b) a lovable part of your heritage/culture/yadda yadda. In either case--why don't you cut the brothers some slack already. Sheesh. So long as the grammar's ok I don't really care if an occasional "th" sound comes out like an "f", f'rinstance (a dialect oddity some black Americans happen to share with Cockneys). Why do you? Moreoever, the current US President--a white man born with a silver spoon in his mouth and privileged to have one of the best educations money can buy--cannot pronounce "nuclear" or "sovereignty" plus a half dozen other words correctly, regularly invents words (e.g. "misunderestimate"), and often butchers grammar and syntax (e.g., "Is our children learning?"), but I don't hear Holger complaining about that. Bush speaks excellent English. Holger ------------- If you actually think so then you have fully demonstrated your ignorance. Bush is so illiterate that he can't even pronounce the name of a prison that has been in the top of the news for weeks and for which HIS people on HIS watch stand accused! He manifests a form of quite classic alcoholic mental dystonia that makes me think that he was either a fetal alcohol-syndrome baby before that was well-understood, and that Barbara has an alcoholic past, or that he's poisoned one too many neurons, or that he was actually born borderline retarded. and that this will come out eventually and the coverup of it, and that for a retard that he is functioning at an amazing level, that is, of course, for a retard! You are a nitwit. You don't graduate from Yale without some ability. -------------------------- Wrong. In the right family, YOU DO! Steve |
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Holger Dansk wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:39:06 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:14:15 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: The Greeks had a great civilization. Much greater than the Romans. They gave us many, many things. Not just some art and some literature. ---------------- Nonsense, they had the money to afford thinkers because they had slaves once again, but they squandered it and most Athenians wasted their money on high living, the few thinkers were a tiny minority. The Greeks were not famous for being rich. --------------- Which "Greeks", since they were totally different city states with different laws, customs, and languages?? Sparta were militaristic morons who served the state as their Gawd. Athenians kept lots of slaves and lived in indolent luxury, unless, of course, you call their slaves "Athenian", and then they surely DID NOT!! As for them being rich, no they did not have plasma TV's backt then, otherwise the only point you could have been making is ON YOUR HEAD! Calm down. Everything is going to be all right. Take some of your medication. ------------------ Lame. And then you cut-n-pasted encyclopedia material. [deleted] Steve I don't think there is any mention of that in their history. ------------------ And that's only because YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T READ WORD ONE ABOUT IT AND *ONLY* GOT WHAT YOU LAUGHABLY THINK YOU "know" FROM THE MOVIES!! |
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