The Talkhaus Talk House Thread

[lukaramu]

Allie are what we're saying wrong?

Yes. even just that sentence.

[Dan]

can you all just stop please

[Falky]

how dare you call girls women

just call them the thing that offends them problem solved

Brilliant. It's not like adults are generally called women and youths are generally called girls, not in the slightest.

Could ladies work? Cause that's what I use.

Still has the age thing really.

[paste]

no luka, you can't be so "on the nose" like that. you gotta play with it a little. e.g.:

no, it am not incorrect.

now you try

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Brilliant. It's not like adults are generally called women and youths are generally called girls, not in the slightest.

women implies girls. read your bible.

[lukaramu]

no luka, you can't be so "on the nose" like that. you gotta play with it a little. e.g.:

no, it am not incorrect.

now you try

why you ridicul me so much i not stand it

[KobaBeach]

Unaniem, your cat is adorable.

And then we have this that happened on my Facebook

*vomits at all those shitty replies*

[ano0maly]

I like how you guys are still going about this, even after fluffi-dono apologized for whatever he did a page ago.

This is just like the SCSF thread, one side taking offense and the other side saying it's an overreaction/misunderstanding, but neither is pleasant to hear in the ongoing drama.

can you all just stop please

[Dan]

fuck, I meant stop posting for good

[lukaramu]

I like how you guys are still going about this, even after fluffi-dono apologized for whatever he did a page ago.

This is just like the SCSF thread, one side taking offense and the other side saying it's an overreaction/misunderstanding, but neither is pleasant to hear in the ongoing drama.

can you all just stop please

I don't think we're really talking about fluffi anymore. That's called "going off a tangent" or "holding a conversation".

[Falky]

Usually female, when used as a noun, refers to the sex of nonhuman animals. Try using "woman" instead. hth

What about if you're also referring to girls (i.e. younger people) though? "Female" encompasses all ages.

life is really tough i know, but women can refer to people of all ages

I fail to see why the first half of that sentence was necessary, and any major dictionary disagrees with you.

[devil†zukin]

a conversation

what on earth is one of those

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I fail to see why the first half of that sentence was necessary, and any major dictionary agrees with you.

fix'd

[Falky]

Fine, whatever, fuck it.

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[devil†zukin]

*standing ovulation*

[ano0maly]

can you all just stop please

I don't think we're really talking about fluffi anymore. That's called "going off a tangent" or "holding a conversation".

I'll be sure to remember that as the justification next time there's a forum drama

[Ashan]

I'm pretty sure it's correct to use the more universal term, sweet cheeks, when referring to womyn.

[devil†zukin]

okay sweet cheeks

[Snakebite969]

*standing ovulation*

Genuinely read that as ovulation

[Leet]

in my head i use "girls" and "boys" to refer to the entire gender, but that sounds pretty dumb in a serious context so if im having a (relatively and by my standards) non-silly conversation i default to females and males

[devil†zukin]

cringe

[Septentrion Pleiades]

in my head i use "girls" and "boys" to refer to the entire gender, but that sounds pretty dumb in a serious context so if im having a (relatively and by my standards) non-silly conversation i default to females and males

Female as a noun is often used in serious conversation. It's all about context. In most context where you use female as a noun, people will equally use male. However, I never seen so much of as a side note about using the word male in the same manner. In the minds of the feminist, female is a depowering word so why bring up using male? That works opposite to the whole point of feminism, which derives from the word female itself. I'm surprise they didn't turn this the opposite direction.

Is this a problem in society? It really depends on context when the word female is being used. If it's used in an equal way as male, then it's probably adults having serious conversations that doesn't center around social justice. Yes, those types of conversation exist in the real world.

It becomes less common to use male and female as noun when things start to be more personal. If you know that name of someone and already know the age and name, people tend to use woman and girl. Actually directly calling someone "a female" is pretty rare. It's can be very disrespectful in that context.

[morsel/morceau]

I fail to see why the first half of that sentence was necessary, and any major dictionary disagrees with you.

then how do you explain Little Women

The quote from the author often appearing in dictionaries of quotations

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems; I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

never seemed very intelligible to me. But it's possibly an oblique joke referring to Thackery's epitome of The Sorrows of Young Werther:

Werther had a love for Charlotte
Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her?
She was cutting bread and butter.

Charlotte was a married lady,
And a moral man was Werther,
And, for all the wealth of Indies,
Would do nothing for to hurt her.

So he sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And no more was by it troubled.

Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.

Can an educated man (I use the term advisedly) think of Fluffi without thinking of Werther?

[Lunikyuu]

Oh geez, is it really that bad? My speech patterns tend to randomly shift between overly serious and formal to non formal stuff all the time, so male and female just sort of crept into my everyday vocabulary...