On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Scott MacDonald wrote:
>>> On 04 October 2011 at 21:08, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>>>> On 10/04/11 3:51 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>>>> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:04, Scott MacDonald wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Unfortunately, I think this is what happens when kewl teenagers who like
>>>> >> memes started (apparently) by star-trek, meet adults who value actual
>>>> >> communication in the language of Shakespeare.
>>>> >
>>>> > Oh, please. I'd call you a flap-mouthed miscreant, but instead I shall
>>>> > risk accusations of incivility and just facepalm quietly to myself.
>>>>
>>>> Pedantry is no more communicative than the memes of pop culture.
>>>
>>> To be pedantic, I think you mean verbosity.
>>
>> What part of "Ten foot pole, not touching." don't you understand.
>> Would that work better?
>
> Did you all manage to miss the point that Tom wasn't being pedantic or
> verbose? He was being Shakespearean (responding to what Scott said
> about the language of Shakespeare), doing so with the words
> 'flap-mouthed' and 'miscreant'. Unless that is considered a form of
> pedantry?
>
> See here for some examples:
>
> http://www.squidoo.com/shakespearean-insults
>
> I feel an "you are all idiots" moment coming on (that's an in-joke).
>
> Or rather, you are all pribbling plume-plucked puttocks.
>
> No, I don't know what that means either, but (to use Scott's phrase)
> it sounds 'kewl'.
>
> I wonder if Shakespearean insults would work better than trout and
> facepalm templates. Probably not.
>
>
Bringing this back to sharp sticklike pointy things... The Finnish
wikipedia template for one sentence microstubs is kalled HOK, an
abbreviation for "Hauki On Kala". ("The pike is a fish." -- A classic
Finnish repartee form for commenting about someone stating the
obvious.) and includes a delicious image of that particular fish in
thumbnail form. Not really a troutslap, but who is picky...
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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