Hard News: Not doing justice
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Not to mention the middle finger salute, which in Roman times was known as ‘digitus impudicus’.
Ah, the simple beauty of digital communication.
I did notice, in the background of Debora's billboard picture, a plain plywood hoarding. Forget all the dick and tit graffiti, that one said "I have Wood" subtle. -
my electorate vote is going to Mike Pero.
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linger, in reply to
A singular and a plural don’t go together.
Your premise (that they is inevitably plural) is false: “singular they ” has long been a part of normal English speech, and is more commonly used today – even in edited writing – than any alternative way of referring to an individual of unknown gender.
References:
Bodine, Ann (1975). Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar: singular ‘they’, sex-indefinite ‘he’ and ‘he or she’. Language in Society 4: 129-146.
Gerner, Jürgen (2000). Singular and plural anaphors of indefinite personal pronouns in spoken British English. In Kirk, J. (ed.) Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 93-114.
Holmes, Janet (1998). Generic pronouns in the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. Kotare 1: 31-39.
Laitinen, Mikko (2002). He and they in indefinite anaphora in written present-day English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7 (2): 137–164. -
linger, in reply to
a dick on a John Key billboard
is just a tautology, surely?
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
actually I was rather aggrieved by the suggestion that a burner may have been associated with that effigy video - kiwiburn et al are about radical inclusion, if Key turned up at the gate with a ticket he should be welcomed on and invited to play his part in the going's on going on. There was an incident a few years back when one group burned an effigy of Brittany Spears during the burn - it riled a few people, including me. The sentiment was understood, but in terms of the true vibe of thing they got it very wrong.
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Sacha, in reply to
Judging from my limited knowledge of classical Roman graffiti, this secret society of dick and tit favouring vandals is older than the Catholic Church.
roflnui
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izogi, in reply to
I was also severely underwhelmed by Gibson on Morning Report doing the usual “I’m sorry people were offended” passive-aggressive voice b.s. rather than just saying “I’m sorry I was offensive. Full stop.
Is that what he said? I'd thought I heard a more direct and responsible apology somewhere along the line, but if he actually spent most of his time blaming others then I'll withdraw my earlier-stated credit to him for at least apologising.
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Alan: for me it's much more of a meh, I don't personally see being silly and burning a public figure in effigy, using your own wood, on your own land, as a big deal. How is it different than a political caricature done in fire? it's not like we have a recent history of people being burned alive, the last person I can think of that comes close was Neil Roberts and that was self inflicted, or that anyone is actually threatening to set Key on fire - but as I pointed out it is part of our culture, we actually do annually burn a political figure in effigy up and down the country. I just think it's political performance art and not a big deal.
Putting a few shots through someone's electoral office - now that's a big deal
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HORansome, in reply to
November. After the election, more's the pity.
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nzlemming, in reply to
You’re paranoid, delusional and I’m more than a little embarrassed for Peter Dunne that his party’s biggest supporter is such a weird crackpot.
Is Pete George UF now? I thought he was ACT. Huh #needscorecard
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National doesn't have Billboards ...
it has 'Key Boards'
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
You’re paranoid, delusional and I’m more than a little embarrassed for Peter Dunne that his party’s biggest supporter is such a weird crackpot.
Is Pete George UF now? I thought he was ACT. Huh #needscorecard
Does it matter any more? Is there a name for the cognitive impairment that prevents its sufferers from realising they'd be better off waving their metaphorical wooden legs instead of attempting to run with them?
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andin, in reply to
Kim Dotcom promotes himself as founder and visionary of the Internet Party and holds a special position of ‘Visionary’ in their party organisation as per their published party rules.
Been at work, I have a job. But man oh man! you must have scoured their literature to find that, ' cause I can't. Thats it I'm out, up at 5am tomorrow.
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Tinakori, in reply to
The few shots relate, I understand, to the Harawiras' admirable campaign against P in the region.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Possibly. Although if this guy's typical of local rightwingers, it might be a more general political opposition.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Does it matter any more?
Nope. Soundbites will beat you everytime.Anyone can be everyone.Perception beats all.
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"chris", in reply to
Your premise (that they is inevitably plural) is false: “singular they ” has long been a part of normal English speech
My reading was that Pete’s focus was rather on the plurality of the reflexive pronoun in Ian’s:
a rogue member took it upon themselves
Obviously I could be mistaken, but I took it as a reference to this descriptive trend:
In recent years, people have started to use themself to correspond to this singular use of they and them: it’s seen as the logical singular form of themselves. For example:
This is the first step in helping someone to help themself.
Ian was not wrong. Pete was not right…yet, but give it a while and the world might just catch up.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/themselves-or-themself
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Isn't sabotage / taking of electoral signs a regular occurrence? I certainly recall people at high school taking great delight in such and sharing their exploits. This was before cell phone cameras, luckily for them I guess.
All I can remember from this was that Winston Peters used wooden signs at the time.
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Lucy Telfar Barnard, in reply to
Of course, that's the other way of looking at it - it's not that it's happening more because of social media; it's just that social media means we're aware of more instances of it than just the ones we pass.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
A singular and a plural don’t go together.
Phew!
Sun still rose this morning….
;- )
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