Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 32 minutes ago, Sam1 Bellisserian said: It might be more interesting to see what would happen if the GD forum was removed all together. Since everything has to be SL related there really is no need for it. All the GD would fit into other areas of the forum. And unfortunately this is the insidious way this sometimes works. It's an old tactic: change something enough that it breaks, note that it is now "broken," and so use that as a justification for just dumping or completely replacing it with something you'd prefer. Change forum rules --> Gosh! People aren't using the GD as much --> The GD is hardly used. Is it necessary, really? --> Kill the GD forum 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: 11 hours ago, Eddy Vortex said: I thought using "adulting" and verbing other nouns is a thing millennials of all genders do. My kids have been laughing at me since they were young because I verb nouns all the time. Doing so pretty much always got their attention though, since they would often do a double take trying to figure out what I actually meant. In school, they taught us these were called "gerunds"! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: And unfortunately this is the insidious way this sometimes works. It's an old tactic: change something enough that it breaks, note that it is now "broken," and so use that as a justification for just dumping or completely replacing it with something you'd prefer. Change forum rules --> Gosh! People aren't using the GD as much --> The GD is hardly used. Is it necessary, really? --> Kill the GD forum I guess they won't need to pay as many Forum Moderators. More money saved --> LL stays in business longer --> Second Life continues longer! Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: My kids have been laughing at me since they were young because I verb nouns all the time. Doing so pretty much always got their attention though, since they would often do a double take trying to figure out what I actually meant. You've got problems? I have fielded three four phone calls in the last 20 minutes from a niece who is confused about the difference between "strong" and "weak" nominal forms in Old English. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: I guess they won't need to pay as many Forum Moderators. More money saved --> LL stays in business longer --> Second Life continues longer! Cool! Unless you're a moderator. Or a forum user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Pet Peeve: Speaking of which, god it's dead around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 37 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: You've got problems? I have fielded three four phone calls in the last 20 minutes from a niece who is confused about the difference between "strong" and "weak" nominal forms in Old English. Aren't we all? 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Just now, Rolig Loon said: Aren't we all? Well, yes. That would include me. I took exactly enough Old English to get through my program. She had my scrambling for my old textbooks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) There are days when I feel old enough to have spoken Old English when it was the thing. The problem is that I'm too old to remember it. Edited September 23, 2022 by Rolig Loon 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 3 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said: There are days when I feel old enough to have spoken Old English when it was the thing. There problem is that I'm too old to remember it. Like they say, 'Twas brillig! - Lewis Carroll Oh wait, that's not it. "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." - Chaucer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 49 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: Unless you're a moderator. Or a forum user? Peeve: Second Life. Without it, there's no Forum. Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said: Peeve: Second Life. Without it, there's no Forum. Cool! You're creating a false dilemma. The survival of SL doesn't rest on whether they pay moderators here. Nor would the loss of GD mean that they no longer needed moderators. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said: 3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Peeve: Second Life. Without it, there's no Forum. Cool! You're creating a false dilemma. The survival of SL doesn't rest on whether they pay moderators here. Nor would the loss of GD mean that they no longer needed moderators. No no no no no lol! I'm responding to the apparent greater importance of the Forum over Second Life itself. That's all! No need to call in the "Logic Elves"! While I love their pointy ears, their yammering and incantations give me a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 9 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said: Great word, I had forgotten it! * puts on a bowler hat with ear-slots * It is a great word, to be sure. But it's misspelled. The correct spelling is "bowdlerized". It is sometimes capitalized, because it is named after English physician Thomas Bowdler. In 1818 he published a censored version of William Shakespeare, expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” It has, perhaps, always had a somewhat negative connotation. I mean, censoring the Bard? Come ON! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: I'm responding to the apparent greater importance of the Forum over Second Life itself. And now you're just making stuff up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Well, I for one probably spend more time here than in world, and I'm pretty sure most of the other regulars do too. So, arguably Love's right about the relative importance! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Just now, Lindal Kidd said: Well, I for one probably spend more time here than in world, and I'm pretty sure most of the other regulars do too. So, arguably Love's right about the relative importance! I don't think that's true of me. For one thing, when I'm in-world, I'm focused entirely on it (except for excursions into Photoshop). Whereas I just pop into the forums on occasion: I rarely have it open in front of me for longer than a few minutes at a time. And . . . I wouldn't be here at all were I not going in-world. My participation in the forums is contingent on my use of the platform. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Minor peeve: finding out that the software you've kept updated for 30 years, while hardly ever actually using it (I'll get to it someday!) has been sold to another company and hasn't had any development work done on it for at least two years. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Vortex Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Seicher Rae said: :::grins::: I actually learned it from a millennial male. Who likewise is peeved at adulting. Just he wait until he reaches middle age… then the real fun begins! ☠️ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said: Minor peeve: finding out that the software you've kept updated for 30 years, while hardly ever actually using it (I'll get to it someday!) has been sold to another company and hasn't had any development work done on it for at least two years. I had a related thing happen, long term. Original company sold their software to Company B. Price went to $60K for what we needed. Company B sold to Company C. Price went to $120K. Company C sold to Adobe. Price went to $360K. Meanwhile, I'm stuck using the software version from 1994-1997! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 More of an amusement rather than a peeve but I just read this in a profile... "RL life Dom and RL Gorean or as close we can get in this life" 🤣 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 19 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said: More of an amusement rather than a peeve but I just read this in a profile... "RL life Dom and RL Gorean or as close we can get in this life" 🤣 ..but not a RL Alpha?! Only RL Alphas will understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solar Legion Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Yeah, what Love is stating is that there is a disproportionate focus on the importance of the Forum over the software it regards (Second Life itself). Which I can certainly see, to a degree. Nothing is being "made up" there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalates Urriah Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Peeve: Talking on and on about there being nothing to talk about. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amina Sopwith Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 55 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Like they say, 'Twas brillig! - Lewis Carroll Oh wait, that's not it. "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." - Chaucer Chaucer is Middle English. Old English is something like Beowulf or The Dream of the Rood. It's very different. It helps enormously if you've learned Latin. Peeve: I never learned Latin. 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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