"Science dammit!" or "Market dammit" or "inevitble-forces-of-history-leading-to-workers-controlling-the-means-of-production dammit" just don't roll off the tongue.
By Aphrodite (pbuher), I am guilty of this once in a while, I am getting better at it, but it is a hard to get rid of that part of the programing.
The Qubecois have turned regular church worship words into curses. It is to the extent that people don't know the religious meaning of their curses. The sacres is the group of Catholic swears unique to Québec. There are many of them; the most popular are probably tabarnak (tabernacle), osti or hostie or estie (host, the bread used during communion), câlisse (chalice), ciboire (the container that holds the host), and sacrament (sacrament). These usually have some milder forms as well, slightly modified versions that lessen their blow. “For example, tabarnouche and tabarouette are non-vulgar versions of tabarnak, similar to ‘shoot’ and ‘darn’ in English,” says Polesello. The sacres typically are interchangeable, rarely having any particular meaning by themselves. Most often you’ll hear them used as all-purpose exclamations. If a Québecois stubs his or her toe, the resulting swears might be “tabarnak, tabarnak!” instead of “******** ******** ********.” They can be inserted into regular sentences the way English swears can to vulgarly emphasize your statement. “For example, un cavemeans ‘an idiot,’ but un estie de cave means ‘a ********ing idiot,’” says Polesello. Because the words are largely just meaningless statements of rage, there is an interesting ability in Québec French to create fantastic new strings of profanity that are, basically, untranslatable. Essentially you can just list sacres, connecting them with de, forever. Crisse de câlisse de sacrament de tabarnak d’osti de ciboire!, you might say after the Canadiens fail to make the NHL playoffs. The closest English translation would be something like “********ing ******** shit ************************ cockface asshole!” Or thereabouts. But strings of profanity like that in American English, though not unheard of, are certainly not common. In Québec, letting loose with a string of angrily shouted Catholic terminology is something you’re fairly likely to hear at some point. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-delightful-perversity-of-quebecs-catholic-swears
Not really an attack on free speech. But a sad day for a type of free speech as The Village Voice has ceased publishing its dead tree edition. It'll continue online. In the mid-80s to mid-90s it was the place to find out about all the concerts & cultural events happening in NYC. NY was still wild, non-Disneyfied/Starbucked back when I used to hang there. And the Voice was kind of a road map to what was going on downtown. A former Voice writer reminisces on how it was back in the 60s: http://www.salon.com/2017/08/30/the-village-voice-and-me-the-untold-story-of-how-i-became-a-writer/ And a few more Voice writers get nostalgic. This part really captured the essence of what it was for NYC area music fans back then: I was looking at the Google archive today, and I found an ad for DNA's very last show in 1982. I got this really intense ... those ads for the bands in the back? The only way you knew about a show was to wait for the Voice to come out. People didn't put up posters. CBGB didn't put out a letter board. They didn't have anything other than that ad in the Voice. I'm averse to the nostalgia thing. But I do think it helped bands, where a mundane thing, playing a show, became more magical because you spent most of your week not knowing, and now you knew. And now there's zero time that you don't know. You spend all of the time up to the show knowing. You had no idea you were seeing that band. In some ways, it was a cheap trick. You hide something and you reveal it, it's the essence of magic, of narrative really. That's a little bit of what we lost. That doesn't mean newspapers were better, but that was a sweet little thing about being able to experience things without over-thinking them. Is that a big deal? No. It was a pleasant thing. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a57165/village-voice-oral-history/
Well, it's appropriate that the Voice pops up in a free speech thread, since one of their contributors made waves with his defense of free speech, a defense extending to those whose speech was despised by the typical Voice reader. Whom I'm sure has been mentioned in this thread by now...
Nearly a fifth of students think it acceptable to shut down unacceptable speech with violence https://t.co/bKJEP5nTxN— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 14, 2017
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German satire magazine was banned from Facebook for 30 days for this: Österreicher/innen, abonniert TITANIC: https://t.co/MNWLQl2ta3 pic.twitter.com/Y2ouWWqKLV— TITANIC (@titanic) October 16, 2017 Finally possible again: Killing baby-Hitler
For all the bad rep college students get on opposing free speech. College education young are still better than non-college. Truly illiberal tendencies are limited to about 20% of college students https://t.co/C8uUNSY3bs— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 19, 2017
Why would it be a surprise that the closer you get to your degree and work/grad school,the less likely you are to mouth off about something completely unrelated to your major which can only get you in trouble?
How do people come up with this shit The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel. This is unconstitutional.— ACLU (@ACLU) October 19, 2017
What products do US companies import from Israel that enough Americans know about to even consider boycotting?
Intel processors. Bunch of medical supplies and equipment. Evidently, produce every now and then. Diamonds.
That was off the top of my head, but it was in the top of my head because of years of anti-boycott corporate training.