Munenori Kawasaki mastering the English language has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims on that post.

That was the English language, right?

I love when grammar nazis don't actually look up the point they're trying to make, to make sure they're right. See no. 2 under tr.v. (transitive verb).

mat 2 (măt)
n.
1. A decorative border placed around a picture to serve as a frame or provide contrast between the picture and the frame.
2. also matte
a. A dull, often rough finish, as of paint, glass, metal, or paper.
b. A special tool for producing such a surface or finish.
3. Printing See matrix.
tr.v. mat·ted, mat·ting, mats
1. To put a mat around (a picture).
2. To produce a dull finish on.
adj. also matte
Having a dull finish.

(Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.)

@MichaelL, dude, it's only a personal pet-peave of mine, please take anything I spew with a grain of salt. The comment you made caused my brain to rumble and flex a bit , and that's always good thing. I was speaking to a certain personally-perceived pretension which I address here (and that not infrequently and wholly unsolicited), and for that, I apologize if it ruffled feathers which incidentally, are worthy of ruffling if they be but feathers.

@ Payback, guess I'd owe you $5 had I taken the bet, correct by half, as I am often at least 1/4.

@bcglorf.....now THERE's the pretentious statement I was looking for. Dost thou assume incorrectly sir or madam that I have some retarded grasp and disrespect of both science and the English language????

We think so and as often, this is the ACTUAL case, ACT-UALLY!!

@lucky760 We're both on the same page with the magnetic phenomena.....
wizardry or some other unseen forces-only possible explanation.

Great post mintbbb. It contained absolutely no human tragedy or catastrophe and no fluffy creatures doing cute things. Nice change 'o pace

Indeed, boo to anyone with a grasp of both the English language AND science.


Seriously, hoping your joking Ching, Mike's post was exactly my first thought watching the clip. Optical illusions are supposed to be things that trick your brain into misinterpreting a scene. In this case, the scene is being interpreted completely correctly, and the trick is in the physics, not in the brain. It's not a trivial or even obscure distinction to many.

Update: SB808 by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles: Saw this guy's ineloquent (seriously flawed use of the English language, no semantic skills whatsoever) press conference announcing this attempt by California to create another fantasy law concerning "ghost guns."

Here's the tool's entire diatribe as California try's another vain attempt to reign-in a police state.

Uhhh, YEAH? Just ask anyone who's not a pig in this fucking video sir, if they NEED a fucking cop whose not doing something FOR the community around them.

So you wouldn't want to be there, neither would I, it doesn't follow that your government ( 'YOUR' emphasized, or at least it should be) should be poised to fuck you..You and your children's children, which is what they fucking eventually do best oh thoust goddamned self-righteous, intelligence fucking-itself, sleep-walker!

Ya wanna point a finger at why the worlds' the way it is, check a fucking mirror?!

(Fuck me and 'So sayest' the Jigga, and his fucking Johnson.)

Cops aren't useful OR useless dumb ass, they are becoming more useless to the non-criminal and and MORE criminal daily, and people like yourself are becoming more cruel and ignorant. ANYONE with a clue can look at this video and see no difference between that of the lawlessness of these people in the streets and the cops hauling-ass away from there in their little cop cars.

I would hasten to guess, that the cops (asshole fucks) IN those cars leaving the scene, have been challenged by their piers to take that drive through there as a 'coming-of-age' challenge, probably all rookies.

You idgits in your insulated little fantasy world, haven't a fucking clue.!!

I don't ascribe to labels like 'statist' either-The state is criminal, plain and fucking simple, use the English language and respect it please sir, and beware evoking a name and the flood that follows.

You clearly aren't familiar with bob...his definition of "liberalism" is really just "anything he doesn't agree with". It has nothing to do with the English language, or agreed-upon definitions.

Please remove the word "iconic" from the English language. That word has come out of nowhere to become the latest must-use hipster word. Everyone and everything that is remotely recognizable by two people now gets referred to as iconic.

If something is famous then why do we need a word to remind us that it's famous?

Believe it or not, with avg. english language word length and the amount of times he touched keys on the keyboard during that time period, he is actually typing at about 15 -20 WPM.

I have the same information as you, so there are limits!

Approximately one third (32.4% in 2012) of Norway's prisoners are foreigners, so it is statistically possible to end up with a 20% rate consisting of a 50% rate among foreigners and 5% among locals, I consider it both a little unlikely, and hardly a damning indictment of the system even if that is the case.

The english language section of the Norwegian Correctional Services web site does mention the challenges they face in trying to rehabilitate foreign prisoners:

This presents a number of challenges for the staff as to language, religion and culture. In addition, a part of this category consists of more or less professional criminal offenders with a certain degree of organization who may be responsible for security problems, criminal activity in or from prison and recruitment of young offenders. Visiting facilities and rehabilitation measures are much harder or impossible to create for offenders who will be deported to their home country after serving their sentence.

It would be really interesting to see an outcome comparison of foreigners gaoled in Norway vs another European country, adjusted for socioeconomic status and background.

It's the subliminal chatter running in your mind as the English language is butchered-Very few of these are clever, either.

@newtboy

What we do know is they did not know, or even have any evidence that they had returned to Boston after the shootout..."

What?!?! How in the fuck do you know that? Did you read that on Infowars? It's expected that a paranoid nutter as yourself would take hold of that bit of info and accept it without any evidence at all, but it's unfortunate that others here, who come here primarily for relaxation or entertainment and may read VS comments with a less-than-critical mindset, might gloss over it and have it slowly infect and then fester in their brains as fact instead of the unmitigated, unsubstantiated bullshit that it is. Evidence that the cops did not know or think the suspects could be in Boston or specific areas searched in Boston after the shootout or STFU. I'm assuming your only evidence they even conducted searches there at all is the YT description you mention, but it doesn't matter to me one way or another if they did or didn't. It shows, however, how easily you collect and incorporate any ethereal fragment of the English language that you feel will support your idiotic narrative.

Beat me by 5 hours-First and last day as anchor. I can sympathize and identify completely with this guy, I may have lasted a week.

On the flip-side of quality, you'd think they'd be able to find some local talent in North Dakota for the local news, eh? Point two- both anchors have horrible public speaking skills- Their diction and command of the English language are total sheit. I'd can both of em and offer the lead anchor job to the lady at the feed store who speaks clearly and confidently, HAS a personality, and never went to university and wasted thousands of dollars on a Radio/Television Communications degree.

He needs to lose the suit and go get a better-paying gig more suited for his skills-HELLO!!?? Oilfield industry is booming in the Dakotas right now A.J., fucking-shit man, land you a job with a future where you can really develop that potty-mouth!