I’m always down for any kind of frisbee.
Aeon221
1682
I support hating on frisbee golf. That tapir is lame.
It’s too much to hope for that the actual word “tapir” has now been filtered to “cunt,” isn’t it?
Edit: Yup.
Ed, a kenning is the use of a recognized property or action to represent that which has that property or performs that action. In the strictest sense, it refers to the use of a traditional alias of this kind in Norse poetry. The technique is a form of synecdoche.
Norse poetry has a couple of other interesting and unusual properties. Assonance (similar sounds in successive words) was a popular substitute for rhyme because it was better suited to the language (of Old Norse). Some works incorporated two-part lines and even call and response.
How’d I do?
Fake edit: I once wrote a popularization of two connected Norse legends in the style of an unusually faithful translation by an English scholar as part of the backstory for an RPG that was going to explore the Norse pantheon in the spirit of conspiracy theories but never got off the ground. Scroll down to Thjazi the frost-giant and Iðunn’s apples.
This looks like the start of the latest meme, but I’ll be damned if I can find the thread with the Tapir quote. I guess I would have to look first. We need someone to sum these things up for the lazy among us.
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1458042&postcount=867
Hint: That post didn’t say tapir until the wordfilter kicked in after the fact ;-)
Though honestly it was the ensuing foofrah that really brought things to a head I’d imagine.
Ah, P&R! I should have known.
Damn, Mac! You never cease to amaze me.
tromik
1691
You guys are morons. I’ll give you a clue. “Kenning is 'alf the battle.”
Yes, “ken” also means “to know” in oldey timey speak. (Gaelic picked it up from one of the Norse languages, I think, but I’m a little shaky on that, so don’t go citing me in your research papers.) That’s why these poetically indirect allusions to things were called kennings – because the audience knew – kenned – what the speaker was talking about. Everyone already knew that “drinker of ships” was another name for the ocean or whatever. It was what today would be a pop-culture reference – a callback to the shared entertainment knowledge of the people involved, like Shakespeare’s use of myths and legends.
hong
1693
You guys killed kenning. You bastards!
tromik
1694
Well, new I’m just black affronted for the bewth of us.
shift6
1695
That’s not very fair. TC’s made his policies on the forum very clear (I should know!) and whenever someone repeatedly crosses the line, what reasonable choice does he have left? The fact is that “the c-word” is perhaps only mildly obscene and jocular in some cultures, for instance in England; but in America some (including me) consider it to be the most foul, derogatory, end-of-discussion word that exists in our language no matter the context of its usage.
A forum consisting primarily of black Americans discussion racial issues would probably treat “the n-word” the same, and it wouldn’t be simply protecting women or something if the moderator got heavy handed for gratuitous usage of these words (in large images, no less).
edit: And now I see people have already said this. Well in my defense, the feminist martyr complex has gotten a little higher around here lately what with Hillary Clinton and all, so my bad.
quatoria
1696
Wow, seriously? That one specific word is your verbal equivalent to nuclear war? I mean, it’s vulgar, no question - but what’s your basis for declaring it the WORST POSSIBLE WORD OF ALL TIME?
Particularly since you obviously don’t give a shit about offending women one way or another. Also, really, Shift? Martyr complex? A woman saying “I don’t find that word particularly offensive, and I don’t need you to defend me from it” is exhibiting a ‘martyr complex’? The suggestion that Angie is trying to be a martyr by making it clear that she’s not going to faint dead away at the sight of the word is a hell of a lot more offensive than the word itself, frankly.
shift6
1697
You know, that’s a good question and I don’t have the answer. Perhaps part of it is that there are no non-vulgar meanings for the word (among Americans) while most other vulgar words have non-offensive, if marginalized, meanings (as Carlin joked, a Disney movie could say “we’re going to snatch that pussy and put it in a box”). Perhaps it’s the single syllable, starting and ending with strong consonants (what’s the word, gutturals? I can’t remember.) that give it a kind of final hits-the-ground-with-no-bounce flavor. I don’t know to be honest.
It’s clearly quite near the edge of the spectrum for others as well however, so my opinion that it is the #1 worst doesn’t seem too much of a stretch.
No, I said very clearly that the recent feminist martyr complex had to do with the Hillary Clinton goings-on. I invite you to those many threads to read up on it, but one clue that I was not bashing Angie right now: Angie didn’t defend Hillary or Hillary’s womanhood in any of those threads (that I can recall), hence Angie was not playing martyr cards.
I note, also, that you sanitized Angie’s actual statement quite a bit by replacing her sarcastic “we of the weaker sex” with “I” in your “quote” above. Her sarcasm was clear in first using the weaker sex phrase she actually used and then directly calling it patronizing; and this is in sharp distinction to those others (again, not Angie as far as I recall) who in my view have recently been playing feminist martyr cards in other discussions.
Although I am curious how you arrive at your conclusion that I “don’t give a shit about offending women one way or another”. Why would you think this, because I don’t subscribe to the extreme positions of feminism (such as the oft-repeated suggestion, paraphrased, that people who preferred Obama to Hillary are sexists who hate her for being a woman)? Must I agree with that evaluation to be a woman-loving man in your view?
A møøse once bit my sister…
Palin: It’s 6735 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
NcCain: Hit it!
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink” . . .
