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It. Is. Fine.

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You all know that unique feeling of tiredness you get when you were on the verge of completely nodding off, then suddenly pull yourself together at the last second before completely falling over the edge of unconsciousness? I hate that feeling.

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*sighs*
Sorry.

I am just being dumb by getting mad over something stupid.

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Refer to your second paragraph to answer this question.

When I make an argument about older Englishmen, using "we" places me within their time. Yes, the concept applies.

My point exactly. Though to match you there, I can't argue with actual examples because I don't read Middle English books. Regardless, this is close enough to discussed out in my eyes if it makes Blitz uncomfortable.

Neither do I; I just searched for citations, and then I looked for Middle English texts that were searchable and looked for the relevant personal pronouns, before comparing them to the translated version. However, I didn't get very far before I gave up, because the oldest Middle English text I could find (Brut) had 16,096 lines and I wasn't going to bother finding every single usage of every single relevant personal pronoun just to prove my point, heheh. But yeah, I think it's just about time to end this discussion. Maybe one day one of us will find an example.

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Which is why we need one board of English speakers.

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Please?

But then all the big factions will cry out, saying that it should have representatives from their ranks, and then we'd be back to the same problem, because it involves choosing one dialect or faction as superior to all the others, a choice which would inevitably be considered biased. The only way I can think of to choose it without bias at all would be to train one or several children from birth in the styles of all factions without bias toward any, let them choose their favourite choice from each controversy, and then use the majority rule. But that's an insane idea and I don't even know how I thought of that. =D

I am just being dumb by getting mad over something stupid.

Hey, we all get irritated over things that seem small from others' perspective sometimes. It's all just a subjective matter, so having a different opinion doesn't make you dumb.

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Hey, we all get irritated over things that seem small from others' perspective sometimes. It's all just a subjective matter, so having a different opinion doesn't make you dumb.

I guess.

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I guess.

Nah. It's a fact. I mean, I don't think you're dumb for getting annoyed at our debates, and I don't think David thinks so either, because we understand. No worries.

You guys are still going on about this?

What about political debates? I'm better with that sort of thing.

You guys are still going on about this?

What about political debates? I'm better with that sort of thing.

But political debates are much less interesting than scholarly debates. The latter actually gets somewhere. =P Anybody can debate politics, but when it comes to intellectual matters, you actually have to do your unbiased research and really think about your position. (Hardly anybody ever actually does unbiased research or think about their position in politics.)

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But political debates are much less interesting than scholarly debates. The latter actually gets somewhere. =P Anybody can debate politics, but when it comes to intellectual matters, you actually have to do your unbiased research and really think about your position. (Hardly anybody ever actually does unbiased research or think about their position in politics.)

I beg to differ, but am so mentally fatigued right now that I won't jump into the fray myself.

You all know that unique feeling of tiredness you get when you were on the verge of completely nodding off, then suddenly pull yourself together at the last second before completely falling over the edge of unconsciousness? I hate that feeling.

It's the worst.

I am just being dumb by getting mad over something stupid.

I just want to know why.

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Neither do I; I just searched for citations, and then I looked for Middle English texts that were searchable and looked for the relevant personal pronouns, before comparing them to the translated version. However, I didn't get very far before I gave up, because the oldest Middle English text I could find (Brut) had 16,096 lines and I wasn't going to bother finding every single usage of every single relevant personal pronoun just to prove my point, heheh. But yeah, I think it's just about time to end this discussion. Maybe one day one of us will find an example.

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But then all the big factions will cry out, saying that it should have representatives from their ranks, and then we'd be back to the same problem, because it involves choosing one dialect or faction as superior to all the others, a choice which would inevitably be considered biased. The only way I can think of to choose it without bias at all would be to train one or several children from birth in the styles of all factions without bias toward any, let them choose their favourite choice from each controversy, and then use the majority rule. But that's an insane idea and I don't even know how I thought of that. =D

The French have already done it.

You guys are still going on about this?

What about political debates? I'm better with that sort of thing.

English.

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It's the worst.

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I just want to know why.

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The French have already done it.

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English.

Why what?

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Why what?

Why you don't like it.

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I beg to differ, but am so mentally fatigued right now that I won't jump into the fray myself.

I said hardly anybody. =P I know you certainly do, and so do David and I.

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It's the worst.

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I just want to know why.

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The French have already done it.

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English.

I was happy when I learned about how the French had done that. At least they have that luxury, because they don't have big leftover frays that speak their language, and the government is more involved in linguistics than other governments for some reason. The French really like their language, I guess.

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I said hardly anybody. =P I know you certainly do, and so do David and I.

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I was happy when I learned about how the French had done that. At least they have that luxury, because they don't have big leftover frays that speak their language, and the government is more involved in linguistics than other governments for some reason. The French really like their language, I guess.

I didn't mean about that part, but you are right about that.

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I didn't mean about that part, but you are right about that.

I was only being semi-serious when I said "the latter actually gets somewhere." Notice my silly face. =P

@whizzball1

I'm mainly talking about your first sentence in that post. 8P

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Why you don't like it.

I don't know.

Night.