emmline wrote:Cranberry wrote:
People are always offended at something. That's the nature of humor. It walks the line...
True. But who'd want to be without it?
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Tony, I think your heart is in the right place and, although I myself don't think this joke is one of them, I have, on a very few occasions, seen some extremely mean-hearted sentiments expressed as an innocent "joke" in these forums. I think everyone probably knows jokes can offend people; the problem is that not everyone cares. It never hurts to give it some thought.
Okay, bak to ze original topik.
Okay, bak to ze original topik.
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This reminds me of a joke a friend of mine tells. He starts off with a long list of different physical conditions and how their names have changed:
Blind - visually challenged etc
Then he goes on about his girlfriend and how she's incapable of even whistling 4 bars in tune or in time (my friend is an accomplished musician). Anyway, he refers to his girlfriend as being musically challenged.
Blind - visually challenged etc
Then he goes on about his girlfriend and how she's incapable of even whistling 4 bars in tune or in time (my friend is an accomplished musician). Anyway, he refers to his girlfriend as being musically challenged.
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One thing that I liked about learning sign language is that the people called themselves Deaf (most of the instructors I had were born Deaf and so were not the “hard of Hearing” late in life variety.) They claim the word as a culture and seem to not let it become derogatory.PJ wrote:This reminds me of a joke a friend of mine tells. He starts off with a long list of different physical conditions and how their names have changed:
Blind - visually challenged etc.
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There are always people looking for an excuse to be offended. I hear so much complaining about being offended that I have become innured to it. But worst of all (IMHO) are those who are not even members of the group being joked about, but who nonetheless take umbrage "on behalf" of those who might have been offended. To them I can only say, for f**** sake, get a life.
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The Twain Original Plan:
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001233.html
...and a very enjoyable Twain essay on the same subject:
http://twain.underthesun.cc/whatisman/whatisman29.html
...though it suffers a bit for lacking the original illustrations.
On the viscicitudes of translation, rather than spelling, and whether or not humor can survive translation:
THE JUMPING FROG [written about 1865]: IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001233.html
...and a very enjoyable Twain essay on the same subject:
http://twain.underthesun.cc/whatisman/whatisman29.html
...though it suffers a bit for lacking the original illustrations.
On the viscicitudes of translation, rather than spelling, and whether or not humor can survive translation:
THE JUMPING FROG [written about 1865]: IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.
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