The Hillary-thread

[DRSB]

And I had to master the grammar without the privilege of having lived in an English-speaking country, I find that hanging in forums helps enormously, all the juicy expression I get to read!

[Svartalf]

Yep, great way to spruce up one's english... 12 years that I'm on forums, and it has helped me hugely.

[laklak]

I bin on the interwebz fer a dang long time and I talk real good 'Murikan.

[JimC]

Forty Two wrote:

The anti-globalization protesters have always been right wingers.

What utter nonsense. True, the anti-globalisation movement is not synonymous with the left in general, and elements of it have appealed to some parts of the right. But the violent protests against it have come from the anarchist left. A lot of the arguments against it are not couched in Trump terms of defending blue collar jobs in first world countries, but protesting the exploitation of third world workers and environmental destruction, in collusion with corrupt authoritarian governments.

[DRSB]

I bin on the interwebz fer a dang long time and I talk real good 'Murikan.

Talking and writing are altogether different skills. I find writing easier.

[Tyrannical]

I bin on the interwebz fer a dang long time and I talk real good 'Murikan.

Talking and writing are altogether different skills. I find writing easier.

True.
I know a lot of people that write very good English but are afraid to speak it. My Swiss friend is a native French speaker and won't speak to me so we have to text.

[DRSB]

I bin on the interwebz fer a dang long time and I talk real good 'Murikan.

Talking and writing are altogether different skills. I find writing easier.

True.
I know a lot of people that write very good English but are afraid to speak it. My Swiss friend is a native French speaker and won't speak to me so we have to text.

I am not afraid, I speak it but I've acquired it through reading and writing so these skills are more developed, naturally. Some say I'm eloquent but I'm just bookish. Immersion is different. I have accumulated over a year of life in Russia just from business trips and speak Russian fluently and very colloquially while making mistakes in writing, albeit minor ones.

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[Brian Peacock]

I live in a nation. Nationalism is a fact. Nations exist within a wider global environment. Globalism is necessary if you want to eat at pizza in front of the telly while texting your mates about how fucking shit globalism is and how it should be overthrown. People like that don't think these things through - it's all "Me! Me! Me!" with them. Were do they think there resources come from? Magic? Extruded out of the arse of a nationalist? Trump said that the US should have just taken Iraq's oil. Iraq lost - the US pwnd them, therefore "All your stuff belong to us now." Is that a good solution to anything? Think that through ffs.

Wait....who's against globalism now? The left or the right? It's the right now? The right is against globalism. The right has always been against globalism.

But... up until a few weeks ago, the left was against globalism.

Another example, Winston.

A serious delusion.

The left likes globalization. The left has always supported globalization. The anti-globalization protesters have always been right wingers.

Some aspects of the global economy work to the detriment of people and some work to the benefit. Why do I have to pick a side, and moreover, why do I have to defend a position according to what side others have picked for me? Read Dave's comment again and then read my comment in that context.

[Svartalf]

I bin on the interwebz fer a dang long time and I talk real good 'Murikan.

Talking and writing are altogether different skills. I find writing easier.

True.
I know a lot of people that write very good English but are afraid to speak it. My Swiss friend is a native French speaker and won't speak to me so we have to text.

Well, I'm half deaf and I have a terrible accent due to being a native French speakers and learning my English from a variety of sources, so yeah, I do prefer writing to speaking.

[JimC]

And your written English is tres bon...

Unlike my execrable schoolboy French...

[Woodbutcher]

When I came to Canada 50 years ago from Finland all the English I knew was: " I take lemonade, she have coffee". That was on the Air Canada flight to Thunder Bay (Fort William+ Port Arthur at the time). Two months after that I went to Gr. 11 in high school. I spoke some Swedish, German and Latin, and a few words of English. Somehow I learned a sufficient amount of English to pass at the end of the year. Since I learned English from books I know how to spell correctly, and that has caused me to be a grammar nazi- I correct signs in stores....

[pErvinalia]

I live in a nation. Nationalism is a fact. Nations exist within a wider global environment. Globalism is necessary if you want to eat at pizza in front of the telly while texting your mates about how fucking shit globalism is and how it should be overthrown. People like that don't think these things through - it's all "Me! Me! Me!" with them. Were do they think there resources come from? Magic? Extruded out of the arse of a nationalist? Trump said that the US should have just taken Iraq's oil. Iraq lost - the US pwnd them, therefore "All your stuff belong to us now." Is that a good solution to anything? Think that through ffs.

Wait....who's against globalism now? The left or the right? It's the right now? The right is against globalism. The right has always been against globalism.

But... up until a few weeks ago, the left was against globalism.

Another example, Winston.

A serious delusion.

The left likes globalization. The left has always supported globalization. The anti-globalization protesters have always been right wingers.

I can't tell if this is parody or real. Anti-globalisation protests are most definitely dominated by left-wingers.

[L'Emmerdeur]

States count write-in votes (mailed in ballots) from military people and such only when the difference between the regularly cast ballots are close enough that it can make a difference.

To quote your hero Trump: WRONG!

You never tire of talking out your ass, do you?

Your confident predictions in the rest of that post are likely nothing but shit as well.

[DaveDodo007]

Forty Two wrote:

The anti-globalization protesters have always been right wingers.

What utter nonsense. True, the anti-globalisation movement is not synonymous with the left in general, and elements of it have appealed to some parts of the right. But the violent protests against it have come from the anarchist left. A lot of the arguments against it are not couched in Trump terms of defending blue collar jobs in first world countries, but protesting the exploitation of third world workers and environmental destruction, in collusion with corrupt authoritarian governments.

JimC is right here as I'm old enough to remember when the labour party where against joining the EU (then it was called the 'common market') The left then knew that joining anything globalist was bad for the workers.