iacobusstudies.bsky.social
Confucian scholar, graduate student of Chinese philosophy
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It’s funny because the origin of memes makes it clear that they are the cultural equivalent to genes, and they would happily call idioms 文化基因.
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Giving money to a red bird?
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Kotor 2 is better
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You are a black man.
This vexes me
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Yeah but how did it taste?
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How so?
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I think the biggest example of this is people don't really understand that healthcare in China is an absolute nightmare. In a lot of ways, since China and America are both these hulking behemoths that bend reality to their will, we have very similar problems lol.
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The reason that messaging works is because people will make assumptions on them just because they’re men, which inevitably leads to people treating their deconstruction a certain (negative) way, which in turn means they thing “oh the conservatives are right.”
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Fair enough, like I said I am being overly harsh about it, and according to my standards “is the pope Catholic” would be a sensible question to ask, so it’s probably not a good universal standard, which I’m not trying to make.
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I mean what would you consider the things that make someone Catholic? Surely it can’t just be saying “I’m a Catholic”
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Maybe I’m being too harsh here, but from what I see it’s that way.
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I think you misunderstand my contention that Vance is a bad Catholic and so shouldn’t be considered Catholic. My contention is that Vance doesn’t actually believe in Catholicism. There are some terrible Catholics who I wouldn’t want to say represent the church, but are still Catholics nonetheless.
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Yeah, none of religion is actually about that.
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I mean depends? Are you talking about the murders the United States committed or the Soviet Union? Because if we judge an ideology based on archetypes, yeah…
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No, but I’m certainly the right age for remembering capitalist countries deporting their own citizens because they do a freedom of speech.
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There’s an interpretation of the first amendment that says the government can’t show a *preference* for certain religions, so this could be based on that interpretation.
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(Wait till you find out most of the food you eat is based on slave labor and imperialism)
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McDonald’s is responsible for JD Vance?
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But, he’s not actually Catholic, it’s similar to painting something yellow and calling it gold.
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why do I have eyes
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In Shandong I’ve used 奶油, I thought Taiwan used a more southern style?
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It was talking about the linguistic shift from godsib to gossip we have today, that is gossip as both a verb and a noun. I’m entirely right here. Her etymology is wrong.
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I mean if the linguistic shifts actually happened then yeah, that could be true. Linguistics and etymology views language as descriptive, not prescriptive. But no one uses the language the way you use it so you’re wrong.
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None of what you said actually contradicted my point? Why are you wasting my time with your retardedness?
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Verbs become nouns and nouns become verbs. This is outside the scope the current argument we are having - what is the etymology of the word gossip and what did godsib mean.
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If the earliest usage of the verbal form of Gossip is earlier than I said, I’m only more correct (I didn’t say Shakespeare was the first to use it, I said by the time of Shakespeare). We can assume it happened earlier than any of the earliest sources. But that’s beside the point.
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Gossip is a both a transitive and intransitive verb. In fact most of the usages of the word gossip today are as verbs. even then word classes don’t actually mean anything. A verb can be a noun and vice versa (even proper nouns do that “I totally Batman’d that” is a grammatically correct sentence.”
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I haven’t sea lioned anything (god you are so fucking terminally online). I posted images that showed that your own source contradicted OP, what more do you want?
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No? Shakespeare used gossip as we use it today, which is a verb “they like to gossip” or “they gossiped about stuff.” This is very much the same meaning as we have it today. To be fair Shakespeare used it as both a transitive or intransitive verb, but whatever you probably just googled it.
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There have only been two sources listed so far, the etymology dictionary and Shakespeare. None of those had a sources’ source, and given that we’ve been talking about usages of gossip since 1300 the screenshot is incorrect.
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Yes, but that doesn’t contradict my point. The etymology given by op is still wrong.
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Wow? Really? A verb isn’t a noun? It’s almost like we use gossip in a verbal form today! Who would have thought I was right?
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i just experienced this lol
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I’m watching the New Pope, but apparently not as many people talk about it.
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I am right though, it’s not a determination, it’s a minor annoyance to me and I have enough free time on my hands to stay on Bluesky for a while.
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It shifted meaning to mostly women friends then became a derogatory word - that matters. It wasn’t originally a gendered word referring to women who assisted in births, then it became that, then it referred to women friends, then it became gossip as defined today.
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Again: you are leaving out the part I have a problem with. You can not stab someone then bring them to the hospital and argue you shouldn’t be in trouble because they are bleeding out. *you stabbed them* is the relevant part.
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Yes, I never said it didn’t *become* gender specific, I said that godsib wasn’t gender specific. Again, the details here matter, and OP’s etymology is clearly wrong - they state that it was gender specific in the beginning.
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The actually etymology of gossip is much wider and more interesting than the one OP cited.
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I was the one who brought up Shakespeare because your etymology is wrong too, as we can see in how he used it - to mean gossip as we define it today way before 1811 (he lived in the mid 1500s to early 1600s).