Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

katydid wrote:Erdapfel is Austrian German. Kartoffel is German German.

Ahh . . . thanks!

Apparently Christopher from Magna could demonstrate the same level of restraint the readers of this forum have. I understand this fairly ridiculous letter was published in the Daily Universe today: Twilight is Pornography The "Twilight" novels are pornography. Thought pornography is seen ...

My favorite insult is pomme de terre. except that everyone I use it on starts laughing. I really need to learn to say potato in a language not many people know. Kartoffel? Peruna? Terpomo? Buntàta? Krumpir? Kentang? Kiazi? Ovy? Aardappel? (which, oddly enough, means the same thing as pomme de terr...

In a completely communistic society, the tax rate would be 100%, but really, there would be no such thing as your money, so you'd have nothing to pay your tithe on. In an ideal 'law of consecration' society, I think the leaders of the community would pay a tithe on the community money, thus taking ...

My favorite insult is pomme de terre. except that everyone I use it on starts laughing. I really need to learn to say potato in a language not many people know. Kartoffel? Peruna? Terpomo? Buntàta? Krumpir? Kentang? Kiazi? Ovy? Aardappel? (which, oddly enough, means the same thing as pomme de terr...

Or German. If people yell at me in German, I tell them that "I don't speak Nazi!" So mean! However, if they were doing it to annoy you... ehh I was very committed to the "Saying I love you in German sounds like you are swearing at them" thing, until I went to the German ward one...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Arabic, huh? That's kinda cool... (I still think dead [or nearly dead] languages are better.)

What do you like about them? (I'm curious because I've never understood the appeal of dead languages over living ones.)

There should be specifically proscribed methods for observing the Sabbath, obeying the Word of Wisdom, paying tithing, dressing modestly, etc. And then we would add a hedge around the law, to make sure we never broke them. That worked great with the Law of Moses. :P Now it looks like I was making f...

Yarjka wrote:I believe [God] wants all people to pay the same set rate for tithing.

That's an interesting assumption. Do you think it's true of all gospel principles, i.e., He wants us all to follow the Word of Wisdom in the same way?

yellow m&m wrote:I would change mine. My current alias is too close to a current writers' alias, so there could be confusion.

We actually asked another writer not to use her reader alias for that reason. (I don't know if she was going to, but there would have been too much confusion between her and another writer.)

I have always used a word processor (in my case, OpenOffice) to create my resumes. However, I've considered using a spreadsheet before, since it would help with some of the columns and formatting difficulties I often face when I use a word processor. I always put everything in a table, then make th...

I don't think that the missionaries in Champaign-Urbana were under any such prohibition. (After all, they were serving on a college campus, so they would have been ignoring nearly half the population.)

xkcd *** wrote:Do you know how amazing a Board comic would be?

Man, I would love to see a board comic or graphic novel. Too bad I have . . . no artistic talent whatsoever.

Portia wrote:It was funny; almost everyone in there was going to Romania, and they weren't so much linguists (more social science-y types). Ah, that beautiful case system . . .

You'd think the linguists would get some respect in that sort of class, though . . .

I'm a kind expert on grammar. I don't use my expertise (such as it is) to hurt people. I even wrote a blog post to that effect. Well, it is always good that you don't use your grasp of English grammar for the forces of evil, or else we'd all be doomed. I believe in using my powers for good. :D

xkcd *** wrote:Sometimes, answers like that make me afraid of submitting my own questions. Knowing that you guys are experts on grammar kind of scares me.

I'm a kind expert on grammar. I don't use my expertise (such as it is) to hurt people. I even wrote a blog post to that effect.

See now, Katya's comment makes more sense to me. :) Well, I'm just expanding on what I think Benvolio meant in the first place. :) I mean, he is a lawyer, so he's going to be concerned with the legal definitions of things. (E.g., you can consider whoever you like to be "family," connotati...

For certain purposes (legal status, qualified benefit recipients, etc.) the government can and should decide who is family, precisely because many people (such as yourself) have fluid concepts of family. These concepts are impracticable and unworkable in the sphere of governmental administration. N...

SWKT Parachuter wrote:It's not like you would have fit in with a bunch of college kids anyway.

If you were really that cool, you wouldn't have to pull rank.

Yellow wrote:[sigh]

I know Mormon single adoptive parents, fwiw.