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SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Also there is something you (not just one person, but you as in "you all") didn't know yet about that SGP guy.
He didn't come here to practice languages only.
So what is his second reason?
Has he got 353.43 liters of snake oil he would like to sell?
No, not at all.
Then what about 231.15?
No, because... he simply hasn't got any.
Instead, the second reason is...
major "spoiler" ahead...
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The second reason is practice of some social abilities of himself.
And yes, I do know very well that there are certain limits of doing so online.
But speaking of this matter, I only consider the forum activity as something additional.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot; rewritten from memory wrote: Maybe you already realized that my signature contains a certain link. There, I denied having approximately 300 liters of snake oil. But what if I only claimed not having that amount because I in reality even have got thousands I'd like to sell?
SomehowGeekyPolyglot; rewritten from memory wrote:Subject: This Message Is Not Spam
Hi there,
This message may come to you in utmost surprise.
But I still would like to ask you if you would like to buy some snake oil.
Best regards,
SGP, the user who neither lives in your country nor has got any snake oil to sell
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Some people tend to capitalize all words in an English phrase sometimes.
This is being done through various reasons, one of them simply is the desire to emphasize something.
linguoboy wrote:SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Some people tend to capitalize all words in an English phrase sometimes.
This is being done through various reasons, one of them simply is the desire to emphasize something.
"Emphasis" covers a lot of cases and there are several methods for adding it: ALL CAPS, italicising, bolding, underlining, exclamation points!!!, etc.
linguoboy wrote: So the question really is: What forms of emphasis do people prefer Capitalising Every Word for? And it's a challenging question to answer because--as far as I'm aware--there isn't a lot of empirical research into the topic and--as you note--different people use this method in different circumstances.
linguoboy wrote:One frequent pattern seems to be putting emphasis on the fact that one is invoking a recognised concept. Slogans, for instance:
"As the Trump administration sputters and his plan to Make America Great Again looks like it's going nowhere..." (Forbes)
Here the writer is drawing attention to the fact that the words "Make America Great Again" are not their own but a slogan promoted by Trump. Putting scare quotes around the words would have had a similar effect but would also have made the phrase look like a simple quote from him rather than a fixed phrase that was the signature line of his campaign.
linguoboy wrote:A more subtle example:
"Spitting on the street is Just Not Done."
Here we're not dealing with a political slogan but with a particular turn of phrase that is associated with a certain group (i.e. the kind of people who talk what is and isn't admissible "in polite society"). Again, the capitalisation has the effect of distancing the speaker from the remarks; in speech this might done through adopting a somewhat affected intonation that mimicked a snobby form of speech.
linguoboy wrote:One last example:
"On one side are those who've often been dismissed as mere NIMBY-ists, the classic Not In My Backyard types adverse to most newer development[.]" (Curbed Boston)
Again, we're dealing with a fixed phrase, one which is common enough that it is often reduced to an acronym. And again, scare quotes would be another option here, as would hyphenation (i.e. "the classic not-in-my-backyard types").
That person who still keeps calling himself Somehow Geeky Polyglot, although he is less than half of a geek now, but still above zero wrote:You somehow got a point.
Besiiiides... both (LAT) alienus and (ENG) alien aren't restricted to "someone from outer space".
(Although not sure if the ancient Romans ever used that word to refer to someone who doesn't live on Earth...).
They both express an idea like "not from this place".
But what if a certain person returns soon and then realizes that we were in the meantime speaking about aliens and stuff???
Since I have a new found passion for something like All Things Communication, I gotta develop a solution right now. Even if it is about something which just might be a bit funny too... we need to tell the truth, yes. So... I for one agree that in the event there really would be some outer-space aliens (cannot confirm nor deny without really knowing that in reality there are some / there aren't any anywhere in the universe), I would want to communicate with them too if they come to Earth. Maybe it only would be possibly through gestures (and they could get them wrong).
But we also can point at certain objects, or use a picture dictionary. This could at least help. But it also could be possible in some cases that they learned one or more human language/s anyway. So... having said that, we now have a sufficient reason for having spoken about aliens. Because even if it could sound a bit funny too, what I just mentioned really could be a draft of a strategy of coping with the aliens, or maybe it even could be sort of a blueprint.
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