Greetings aka The welcome to DAC thread

[Wandering Linguist]

By the former I mean that I've studied much into the art of language and lexicographical subtleties as well as grammatical intricacies (both of spoken and written word). Everything that public high school education did not expand on, I studied personally out of personal interest. Being a native Pole as well as having taken the German language for five years during H.S. yielded further insight into the power of the delicate semantics in words and phrasing.

In short, I'm an unofficial minor wise guy of language. Also I'm a quadlinguist, with the fourth tongue (well, figuratively) being ASL (American Sign Language).

P.S. I wouldn't consider myself a graphomaniac so much as a philologist, that is, a lover of literature.

subliminal persuasion: You now want to read an Ayn Rand novel...

[Blargh]

subliminal

I now want to stab you in the eye with a compass.

[Wandering Linguist]

If that's how you feel.

[SenisterDenister]

Ayn Rand, what a peach. We're fine here without it.

[gobbleykins]

Ayn Rand, what a peach. We're fine here without it.

YUP

[Doc Hill]

Ayn Rand. Ugly and a bad lay.

[Superhaze]

She's a cunt.

This has already been established as a universal rule.

[Username]

^Even by her patrons and friends who claimed they often couldn't stand her.

[Wandering Linguist]

Perhaps, but her work per se is quite not bad.

[Doc Hill]

Please, her work is shit. Her ideas are shit. Her everything was shit.Personally I think she got off on suffering masses. But that's just me.

[jimmypneumatic]

Nina Hagen: More interesting and hotter soviet artist...

[Wandering Linguist]

So I take it you didn't enjoy "Atlas Shrugged"? I thought it raised some interesting points on morality. It was one of those books that makes you look at society as a whole with a different perspective.

Nina Hagen: More interesting and hotter soviet artist...

Soviet? That's just embarrassing.

[jimmypneumatic]

You like that? I used the term 'artist' too, because the only thing these two people from diffrent generations, countries and philosophical beliefs have in common is the Soviet Union. Regardless of whether or not Ayn Rand supported them or even lived there, I was making an unrelated comparison to change the subject.

[SenisterDenister]

Ayn Rand is bad and you should feel bad.

[Tofu Man]

(...)P.S. I wouldn't consider myself a graphomaniac so much as a philologist, that is, a lover of literature.(...)

Plainly speaking, then, you're a wanker.

Can we keep him?

[Superhaze]

The only thing Ayn Rands "philosophy" is used for is winy mediocre people who has to find someone else to blame for their own faults and shortcomings. Its quite paradoxical when you consider what her ideology itself is, but never the less it is used by failed university students who didnt become nobel prize physicists as an explanation for them not doing as well as they though they would.

"I was soooo bored at school, and I never got aaaany challenges, and all the stuuuupid kids in my class held me back, man. SOCIETY held me back man. I'm actually a fucking genious, but everyone just forced me to be a mediocre loser. Its so fucking weak man."

"Man" added for extra douchiness.

[Stalagmite]

Just blame America that's what we do. It's actually quite motivating to be honest.

[PiP]

P.S. I wouldn't consider myself a graphomaniac so much as a philologist, that is, a lover of literature.

An urge to use "fancy words" does not characterise a "philologist". On the contrary, some classes of the philological curriculum will teach you that one ought to use the simplest word that will be enough, that is if you lack natural intuition in this respect.

But hey, at least you'll be able to engage in some mutual cock-licking with Blargh. He suffers from the condition, too (even if it got better recently).

[Doc Hill]

In short, you're a douche nozzle, you'll fit right in.

[Wandering Linguist]

I only felt it right to match "graphomania" with a word of equal lexical magnitude. You guys are pretty critical though, by internet anonymity standards. I think I'll enjoy my stay here.