I said something along the lines of:

“Wow, I haven’t had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while.”

Along with

“Nah, the more dead corpos dragons, the better.”

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

…

Good ole’ civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    11·
    21 days ago

    Sorry for the big off-topic. I just can’t help when it comes to etymology.

    Edit: in case you missed it, the letter “I” was the Latin language character for “J” until the 4th or 5th century.

    What changed around the 4th~5th centuries were sounds, not letters - the Latin words using the sound [j] (as in yes) were being pronounced with [d͡ʒ] (as in jazz). Even everyday words like iocus (game) or iam (already).

    But people kept spelling them the same - you’d use “I” for [i ɪ j ʒ dʒ] (as in beet, bit, genre, jazz), and let context tell them apart. For any language using the Latin alphabet, not just Latin herself, as shown by Shakespeare:

    The iniury of many a blasting houre;
Let it not tell your Iudgement I am old,

    At most you’d flourish some “I” with a downwards curve, for easier reading; such as when you got 2+ “I” in a row. This mostly affects numbers (like XIII being spelled “xiij”), but also a few words like Old Spanish “fiio”=“fijo” (“son”; modern Spanish “hijo”).

    Edit 2: in case you also missed it another group changed EL’s name to Allah

    It’s more like both sides changed it. Without going too much into detail:

    • the proto-Semitic word was around *ʔil or so
    • the Biblical Hebrew pronunciation of ⟨אל⟩ was probably [ʔil] too, even if Tiberian Hebrew would read the word as [ʔe:l] “El” instead.
    • Arabic “Allah” is most likely a contracted expression of [aɫiɫɫa:h]; [aɫ] is the article and the [aːh] a vocative. The underlying root is [ʔil]~[ʔill], spelled ⟨إِلّ⟩~⟨إِل⟩.
    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      8·
      21 days ago

      Well done on being both pedantic and informative. Yes you’re absolutely correct on both points, I didn’t feel the need to get that far into the weeds trying to explain that my own personal beliefs are tied into all of that historical pedantry. I just wanted to illustrate that such assholery is entirely possible by following the earlier ideas.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        5·
        21 days ago

        Sorry for my burst of pedantry. I couldn’t help it, I love to dig through the origin of the words.

        …for a reason that is actually related to your Baháʼí faith: it shows that humans - those in the past, us in the present, and probably the ones in the future - are still the same. You see the same processes working on those words in the past as they do now.

        [I agree with your main point. And I’m aware that what I said is unrelated to it, it’s only marginally related to the example.]