The Suez Canal was (and is) one of the great engineering projects of the modern era. But did you know that during the Roman Empire (of which Egypt was a province of, at the time), this Civilization had also constructed a canal in the proximate location of the Suez Canal, thus linking the River Nile and Red Sea for maritime traffic?
Perhaps your thirtieth (or so) great grandfather worked on that ancient project?
Please note: The ancient canals (there were earlier ones as well) were typically routed from the River Nile to the Red Sea near Suez, not from the present-day location of Port Said on the Mediterranean coast.
I thought I just explained to you that it was a figure of speech and not meant to be taken literally. Do you know what I mean? I'm not actually thanking anyone, I'm just thankful in general. That's all I meant by the term.
Please refrain from making false, libelous and fantastic claims of your own mind, and applying them to others!!!
I HAD AT NO TIME CLAIMED TO BE, OR MADE A STATEMENT THAT I AM A "SUPERBEING".
In fact, this term (in quotation marks above), is also nonstandard, meaning that it is quite simply NOT A WORD!!!
You are an arrogant idiot!!!
Do you actually believe that this entire Universe was put here just for you, and that the Universe revolves around you!!!?
"Idiot" is an archaic term, originating from Middle English in the 1200s, which became a medical definition in the early 20th century, referencing a person with a "mental age" under 3 years, and an I.Q. under 25.
...neither of which describes charli.m.
Please stop being a hypocrite, making false and archaic statements to prove unwarranted, unbelievable, and exaggerated points that create divisions in society.
Your intrusion into our conversation is most unwelcome.
Your persistence of rudeness and vulgarity is unwarranted and is not helpful to anyone.
1) How are you certain that linchpin is, in fact, a "dude"?
dude noun \ˈdüd also ˈdyüd\
Full Definition of DUDE
1: a man extremely fastidious in dress and manner : dandy
2: a city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially : an Easterner in the West
3: fellow, guy —sometimes used informally as a term of address <hey, dude, what's up>
2) The term "fuckhead", is nonstandard, vulgar and rude. Only a fucked-up know-nothing would use such terminology.
3) We have been through this time and again. A "troll", is a giant or dwarf of Scandinavian folklore. Is there any part of this that you do not understand, or can't remember?
4) It is simply rude to refer to other humans as "it". If you are unsure about another's gender, then you should ask politely, or use connotations of 'they' sparingly.
Usage Discussion of THEY
They used as an indefinite subject (sense 2) is sometimes objected to on the grounds that it does not have an antecedent. Not every pronoun requires an antecedent, however. The indefinite they is used in all varieties of contexts and is standard.They, their, them, themselves: English lacks a common-gender third person singular pronoun that can be used to refer to indefinite pronouns (as everyone, anyone, someone). Writers and speakers have supplied this lack by using the plural pronouns <and every one to rest themselves betake — Shakespeare> <I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly — Jane Austen> <it is too hideous for anyone in their senses to buy — W. H. Auden>. The plural pronouns have also been put to use as pronouns of indefinite number to refer to singular nouns that stand for many persons <'tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech — Shakespeare> <a person can't help their birth — W. M. Thackeray> <no man goes to battle to be killed. — But they do get killed — G. B. Shaw>. The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts. This gives you the option of using the plural pronouns where you think they sound best, and of using the singular pronouns (as he, she, he or she, and their inflected forms) where you think they sound best.
The phrase that you had used is not a figure of speech!
figure of speech
Definition of FIGURE OF SPEECH
: a form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener
figure of speech (Concise Encyclopedia)
Form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect, often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener. An integral part of language, figures of speech are found in oral literatures as well as in polished poetry and prose and in everyday speech. Common figures of speech include simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns.
The phrase that you had used, is actually an idiom.
An idiom (Latin: idioma, , f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that has a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.
The phrase that you had used introduces a religious idea of an Anglo-Germanic generic deity called 'good', but that this deity shares traits with a deity variously named and [this idea] is borrowed from earlier Semitic Cultures, and that we should all be thankful to this deity, for some unknown reason!
If you are simply thankful in general, then in future, please state it in that way,(i.e. I'm thankful that... [or similar]), such that you do not create controversy among people, and do not assist in spreading such ridiculous archaic and divided religious ideas around the world.
IIN to wonder about who you would've been if you hadn't been you?
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I do actually. My grandpa worked on the Suez Canal.
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The Suez Canal was (and is) one of the great engineering projects of the modern era. But did you know that during the Roman Empire (of which Egypt was a province of, at the time), this Civilization had also constructed a canal in the proximate location of the Suez Canal, thus linking the River Nile and Red Sea for maritime traffic?
Perhaps your thirtieth (or so) great grandfather worked on that ancient project?
Please note: The ancient canals (there were earlier ones as well) were typically routed from the River Nile to the Red Sea near Suez, not from the present-day location of Port Said on the Mediterranean coast.
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The HVAC129-ers laid a lot of pipe in your mom's canal.
...just sayin'
fuckin suez canal weren't nothing but 2nd place prize for a buncha frogs what couldnt hack it in panama. fuckin ditch thru some sand, big deal.
I thought I just explained to you that it was a figure of speech and not meant to be taken literally. Do you know what I mean? I'm not actually thanking anyone, I'm just thankful in general. That's all I meant by the term.
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Don't worry about it, dude. The fuckhead troll isn't worth your time. It will keep on going with its idiocy no matter what you say.
Unless you feel like toying with it, then go straight ahead :D
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Gee this is a troll unlike any I've encountered before its like arguing with a bigoted encyclopedia
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"bigoted encyclopedia"
This made me laugh XD
It's...something. I haven't worked out what yet. It tells us it's a superbeing in contact with some form of aliens or whatever.
(It gets super pissed when you call them aliens :D)
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Please refrain from making false, libelous and fantastic claims of your own mind, and applying them to others!!!
I HAD AT NO TIME CLAIMED TO BE, OR MADE A STATEMENT THAT I AM A "SUPERBEING".
In fact, this term (in quotation marks above), is also nonstandard, meaning that it is quite simply NOT A WORD!!!
You are an arrogant idiot!!!
Do you actually believe that this entire Universe was put here just for you, and that the Universe revolves around you!!!?
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I find your impotent rage arousing ;)
"Idiot" is an archaic term, originating from Middle English in the 1200s, which became a medical definition in the early 20th century, referencing a person with a "mental age" under 3 years, and an I.Q. under 25.
...neither of which describes charli.m.
Please stop being a hypocrite, making false and archaic statements to prove unwarranted, unbelievable, and exaggerated points that create divisions in society.
Your intrusion into our conversation is most unwelcome.
Your persistence of rudeness and vulgarity is unwarranted and is not helpful to anyone.
1) How are you certain that linchpin is, in fact, a "dude"?
dude noun \ˈdüd also ˈdyüd\
Full Definition of DUDE
1: a man extremely fastidious in dress and manner : dandy
2: a city dweller unfamiliar with life on the range; especially : an Easterner in the West
3: fellow, guy —sometimes used informally as a term of address <hey, dude, what's up>
2) The term "fuckhead", is nonstandard, vulgar and rude. Only a fucked-up know-nothing would use such terminology.
3) We have been through this time and again. A "troll", is a giant or dwarf of Scandinavian folklore. Is there any part of this that you do not understand, or can't remember?
4) It is simply rude to refer to other humans as "it". If you are unsure about another's gender, then you should ask politely, or use connotations of 'they' sparingly.
Usage Discussion of THEY
They used as an indefinite subject (sense 2) is sometimes objected to on the grounds that it does not have an antecedent. Not every pronoun requires an antecedent, however. The indefinite they is used in all varieties of contexts and is standard.They, their, them, themselves: English lacks a common-gender third person singular pronoun that can be used to refer to indefinite pronouns (as everyone, anyone, someone). Writers and speakers have supplied this lack by using the plural pronouns <and every one to rest themselves betake — Shakespeare> <I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly — Jane Austen> <it is too hideous for anyone in their senses to buy — W. H. Auden>. The plural pronouns have also been put to use as pronouns of indefinite number to refer to singular nouns that stand for many persons <'tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech — Shakespeare> <a person can't help their birth — W. M. Thackeray> <no man goes to battle to be killed. — But they do get killed — G. B. Shaw>. The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts. This gives you the option of using the plural pronouns where you think they sound best, and of using the singular pronouns (as he, she, he or she, and their inflected forms) where you think they sound best.
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"Your intrusion into our conversation is most unwelcome.Your persistence of rudeness and vulgarity is unwarranted and is not helpful to anyone."
You have just described your entire existence.
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Now you are simply casting blame on others for your own actions.
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Where's the dictionary citations??
I can't masturbate to this :/
...again...you're being a hypocrite. Look within before casting stones.
You create more divisions with your offensive, socially retarded assertions than anyone on this site has ever done.
...and then wonder why you're ridiculed? You wonder why nobody takes you seriously?
According to Strunk & White...
"...the pronoun 'he' may be used when gender is unknown and 'he or she' would present such a cumbersome text as to become a hindrance..."
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I didn't pull that out of my ass or anything. Strunk & White are big fans of passive verbs! hahaha!
Incorrect.
The phrase that you had used is not a figure of speech!
figure of speech
Definition of FIGURE OF SPEECH
: a form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener
figure of speech (Concise Encyclopedia)
Form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect, often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener. An integral part of language, figures of speech are found in oral literatures as well as in polished poetry and prose and in everyday speech. Common figures of speech include simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns.
The phrase that you had used, is actually an idiom.
An idiom (Latin: idioma, , f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that has a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.
The phrase that you had used introduces a religious idea of an Anglo-Germanic generic deity called 'good', but that this deity shares traits with a deity variously named and [this idea] is borrowed from earlier Semitic Cultures, and that we should all be thankful to this deity, for some unknown reason!
If you are simply thankful in general, then in future, please state it in that way,(i.e. I'm thankful that... [or similar]), such that you do not create controversy among people, and do not assist in spreading such ridiculous archaic and divided religious ideas around the world.
Thank you.