Comments on: That Was the Week That Was (#9) http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/ Frank commentary from a retired call girl Fri, 24 May 2013 05:50:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Woogeroo http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-57569 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:11:38 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-57569 For those of you who need a PayPal alternative, check out :

https://www.dwolla.com

I’m not shilling for ‘em, do your research and check ‘em out, make yer own decision.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20760 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:56:48 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20760 I don’t mind it in common speech, but in writing it looks anything BUT “elegant” IMHO.

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20755 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:17:57 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20755 You know, maybe it’s actually a good thing that I’m not rich. I’d be tempted to set up the biggest lolicon/shotacon website the world has ever seen. Every 10,000th visitor gets a free copy of Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.

]]> By: Heron http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20751 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:10:57 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20751 That’s true, and I’m sure not going to go to the mattresses over it, but the singular use of they/them/their has remained part of the living language -despite the wishes of grammarians- throughout the intervening centuries, leading many contemporary linguists and grammarians to accept the use as valid. Moreover, it fills a vital need for an elegant gender-neutral and identity-indeterminate pronoun in our language that “he” or “he or she” do not.

Having said all that, the “he” usage is not only perfectly valid, but also insisted upon by more than a few college profs out there. The word-nerd in me just feels the need to stand up for small heterodoxies like this and flat adverbs from time to time.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20742 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:05:30 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20742 I was taught that they’re plural, and so were the people who designed that website and everyone who uses them incorrectly today. In modern English, the proper pronoun for a single person of indeterminate gender is “he”, not “they”. If we’re going to allow older rules as an excuse for grammatical errors, you can kiss formal spelling and grammar goodbye.

]]> By: Heron http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20739 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:34:08 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20739 Regarding Paypal’s policies, I suspect this might be in response to that new “anti-child porn” bill, which basically is designed to outlaw any possible depiction of what might be construed as pornography involving a child (including short women with small breasts). Lots of conventional search sites, art sites like DeviantArt, as well as the big porn aggregators (RedTube, Rule #34, ect.), have been instituting new policies to try and be in compliance with PCIP (Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers).

]]> By: Heron http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20738 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:23:07 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20738 I’m going to get a bit pedantic here so I’ll beg your forgiveness in advance, but “them” and “they” aren’t necessarily plural pronouns. Until the 1800s, when the Victorians really got busy standardizing the English language and trying to jam a Celto-Romanto-Nordic pidgin language into something akin to formal late Republic Latin grammar, “them” and “they” were sort of general nonspecific pronouns, so using them in reference to what a theoretical person might do is just as proper as using them in reference to what a theoretical group of people might do.

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20695 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:40:10 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20695 Indeed, if a prostitute becomes a doctor, she has less time for prostitution. If one is against prostitution, then wouldn’t prostitutes becoming doctors be a GOOD thing, because the doctors then can’t be doing as much of that icky prostitution?

]]> By: aspasialibertine http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20689 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:40:41 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20689 I’d love for the author of that article to explain, in detail, what is the ethical conflict of a prostitute becoming a doctor. I can see the ethical conflict of a serial killer becoming a doctor…. of a psychopath or sociopath becoming a doctor. Despite the fevered and ridiculous beliefs of religious fanatics who hate prostitutes or the angry beliefs of neofeminists who hate prostitutes, prostitution and its practitioners have nothing in common with serial killers, sociopaths or psychopaths, so how is any of our sisters becoming doctors an ethical issue for that profession?

]]> By: Rapid http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/that-was-the-week-that-was-9/#comment-20683 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:43:56 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9123#comment-20683 ‘“…[a new] study revealed…that young women with lower GPAs and more [binge drinking] used condoms less and less frequently over time…”’

Could this be an example of someone having an astute grasp of the obvious?

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