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[Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - Black - 12-12-2013
Mr. Jantije might be well advised to sit down with a publicist and prepare some succinct talking points before his next interview.
http://news.yahoo.com/mandela-mimer-hits-back-39-m-sign-language-071924797.html
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - max - 12-12-2013
You are an unfeeling piece of frozen ham if you cannot feel sorry for his victimhood, it has nothing to do with the endemic corruption permeating every level of the new South Africa,
in your face corruption that got the flaming fake this gig....
Thamsanqa Jantjie have suddenly been unable to concentrate on Tuesday and have heard voices while being unable to leave the rostrum.
" There was nothing to do. I was alone in a dangerous situation. I tried to control myself and not to show to the world what happened to me. I'm really sorry, this is the situation in which I found myself
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - Filliam H. Muffman - 12-12-2013
Thanks Obama!
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - max - 12-12-2013
Thanks Muffman for your usual deep insight on African affairs....
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - hal - 12-12-2013
Why are you so angry Max?
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - max - 12-12-2013
Where do you see the anger hal?
Bemusement, there is a difference....
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - hal - 12-12-2013
I usually assume that one slinging insults is angry about something. Why are you so bemused?
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - $tevie - 12-12-2013
Word to Watch: ‘Bemused’
The popularity of this modifier seems undiminished by the fact that many writers, and readers, aren’t quite sure what it means.
As The Times’s stylebook says, in careful, traditional use, “bemused” means “bewildered,” “confused” or even “stupefied.” An extended meaning is “preoccupied, lost in thought.”
But the similarity in sound to “amused” leads many writers to merge the meaning of the two words, using “bemused” to suggest a sort of detached amusement. A few dictionaries have started to accept this as an alternate sense.
Such shifts in meaning based on an initial misunderstanding are common as the language evolves. Sometimes the derived use becomes so widespread and accepted that it’s pedantic and pointless to insist on only the original sense. For instance, not long ago we dropped our stylebook’s longtime admonition against using “careen” — rather than “career” — in the sense of “lurch along wildly at high speed.” The original distinction had eroded so completely that there was little to gain in clinging to it.
But there’s a reason to go slowly on such changes. Preserving the original sense of a word like “bemused” gives the careful writer an additional, precise tool. When its meaning starts to blur or merge with another word’s, the result, at least for a while, is confusion and a loss of variety.
http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/bemused-bewildering/?_r=0
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - max - 12-12-2013
Some of us have evolved with the language,
$tevie wrote:
Word to Watch: ‘Bemused’
... the language evolves. Sometimes the derived use becomes so widespread and accepted ..
others get confused, pointlessly and pedantically accusing others of pedantic behaviour.....
$tevie wrote:
The popularity of this modifier seems undiminished by the fact that many... readers, aren’t quite sure what it means...
Sometimes the derived use becomes so widespread and accepted that it’s pedantic and pointless to insist on only the original sense.
Re: [Mimegate] Mandela Mimer Hits Back: I'm Sign Language Champion - $tevie - 12-13-2013
