| QtPlatypus | Chris62vw: Can't words be used with the intent to give offence? |
| mnmnmn | Zoffix: niger isn't offensive |
| Chris62vw | QtPlatypus, absolutely, but it is still taken. Think about it... :-) |
| jdk14_ | Zoffix: I'm pretty sure the world of mental health has moved on from calling people retards |
| thrig | without boards around, how do we make folks walk the plank? |
| errr | lol |
| QtPlatypus | And didn't this come about from Zoffix taking offence at the word "u"? |
| Chris62vw | hehe |
| Zoffix | jdk14_, what's your point? |
| jdk14_ | Zoffix: just like the world of race relations has moved on from using the n-word |
| Chris62vw | QtPlatypus, uhh, I don't know if I would call that "offense"... that's a different kind of offense. |
| jdk14_ | yesterday's regular language becomes today's hate speech as societal norms shift |
| QtPlatypus | Zoffix: That if it was your intent to not be offencive then you would have used other words. |
| mnmnmn | QtPlatypus: I take offense at him mixing up "niger" with "nigger" |
| Chris62vw | heh, no broads allowed... like there are girls on IRC in the first place. |
| mnmnmn | no blacks either |
| fbsdrandi | how is any of this relevant to perl |
| Zoffix | I see the guy having trouble to spell words correctly. I assume he is a retard. If I'd to see that your skin color is black I'd assume you are a black person. Sorry, but "retard" is not offensive. It's a short form of calling a person who has a "retardation syndrome" |
| Chris62vw | fbsdrandi, you can talk about almost anything in #perl. |
| jagerman | Isn't it more like "gudie, myte?" |
| jdk14_ | Zoffix: find a doctor who'll say that's a valid syndrome in the late 20th century or beyond |
| Chris62vw | doctors do not necessarily make up definitions for words a retard is someone who does something stupid. plain and simple if you don't like it, tough a retard is ALSO a, well, retard, but that's a different story |
| QtPlatypus | Zoffix: Spelling trouble doesn't indercate low intelegence. For example dysgraphics and dyslexics are typically highly intelegent though poor writers/readers. |
| Zoffix | jdk14_, You are right. It's called a "Down syndrome" or "mental retardation". |
| jpeg | yah, the sad refrain of poor spellers. |
| Zoffix | QtPlatypus, dyslexics don't misspell same words all the time. People with retardation have difficulties learning. And he has difficulties learning that "you" is spelled "you" not "u" EOF |
| fbsdrandi | QtPlatypus: can't you write an autocorrecting irc plugin? is your perl foo that weak? |
| jpeg | Chris62vw: the medical community did at one time have strict definitions for idiot, imbecile, moron, and fool. I can't remember if retard was one of them. |
| QtPlatypus | fbsdrandi: Correcting my spelling is a hard AI problem. |
| Chris62vw | jpeg, interesting. I do not stand by my assertion that a "retard" is a medical term, of course. It is a term people sometimes use for developmentally challenged individuals though |
| QtPlatypus | Zoffix: I don't think he has trouble learning, I think he is a fool. |
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| fbsdrandi | QtPlatypus: sounds simple to me |
| Chris62vw | neway, u retards r boreng. afk |
| QtPlatypus | That is he is lacking in the wisdom to see that spelling 'you' as 'u' is a ingroup/outgroup indicator (I used to know the correct term for these) and that the simple addition of two letters would make it more likely that he would get a postive result. |