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...assimilate *through* it.
Gracie Gold Apologizes for Racially Insensitive Tweet
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...assimilate *through* it.
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Wow, rank subjectivism combined with stark anti-intellectualism! that is a personal attack.
Surely surely. As the celestial perspective displays in elaboration, a fully encompassed erudite is an infinitesimal dot like any other. It's entirely tragic, as the Spanish saying goes, "Quieres que te quieres mas?"
Sorry. Oh I'm Chinese. Some of those words could be unapologetically wrong.
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So true. The question is: Much of what?
I certainly expect much from you. Welcome to the GS. Post long and often.
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Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science, as impractical and contemptible
How did I express that by saying anyone can learn big words? To me that is a celebration of intellectual pursuits and intellectuals, all of whom learn things (whether words or others) over time. I don't see how I derided education by saying, essentially, anyone can learn words through education. To the contrary, I am saying education is the key to intelligence IMO.
Also, if you saw my resume or CV, you'd probably pretty much drop dead from shock over how much education I've gotten. To think I am anti intellectual based either on my comments, my behavior on the boards or elsewhere, or my life is kind of... bizarre.
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I just love an intellectual debate between "All you do is talk!" and "No I don't!"
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Then why are you fighting me? You should be supporting me.
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I don't read Spanish, nor Chinese. But when I do, I'll let you know what I think, okay?
When I first knew about Gracie's original tweet, I thought she made a stupid mistake but definitely not malicious and disrespectful. But now after reading some of the posts (too many for me to catch up), it occurs to me maybe she tweeted because she thought Mao's pronunciation was cute. Anyway She apologized and learned that words can be taken completely different from your intention.
First of all, I'd like to start by apologizing for the mistakes I make when writing in English, it's not my mother tongue 
This thread is hilarious. I do agree that it is important to be careful when using twitter 'cos very often people can misinterpret what you write. I think Gracie's tweet was meant to be a joke, addressed not only to Mao but to all skaters who were present in NHK. Many of them also participated in the ICE show were they shot the ShibSibs video (btw, if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's great!!) I find it strange that so many think Gracie's tweet was malicious and racist... Yes, it was a bit silly from her part but come on, it was not racist or offensive by any means.
This thread is hilarious. I do agree that it is important to be careful when using twitter 'cos very often people can misinterpret what you write. I think Gracie's tweet was meant to be a joke, addressed not only to Mao but to all skaters who were present in NHK. Many of them also participated in the ICE show were they shot the ShibSibs video (btw, if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's great!!) I find it strange that so many think Gracie's tweet was malicious and racist... Yes, it was a bit silly from her part but come on, it was not racist or offensive by any means.
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Really? Surely, fluency in foreign languages - much like vocabulary - is an ethereal part of the integral erudition that you were inborn with via proxy, rather than something you acquire? I'm surprised you don't speak every language!
On second thought, perhaps you should continue to spew your bombastic, garrulous tripe. At the least, it's entertaining... even if us uncultured peasants are incapable of deciphering such brilliantly cogent thoughts! :sarcasm:
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I like you.
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For the record I "only" have a bachelor's degree, like concise writing and do not need to write a lot of big words. I think I turned out OK. 
That said, I like Hemingway AND Faulkner, two authors with VERY different writing styles. So I think a wide variety of vernacular could co-exist on this forum
Also protip: If you're going to bring an athlete to task, make sure you got the corret Twitter handle (Not related to the Gracie situation, but just another example of Twitter relations gone bad):
http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/twit...campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial
Also, I appreciated this tweet from Jonathan Martin, NYT writer with the same name as the pro NFL star that was getting flammed:
That said, I like Hemingway AND Faulkner, two authors with VERY different writing styles. So I think a wide variety of vernacular could co-exist on this forum
Also protip: If you're going to bring an athlete to task, make sure you got the corret Twitter handle (Not related to the Gracie situation, but just another example of Twitter relations gone bad):
http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/twit...campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial
Also, I appreciated this tweet from Jonathan Martin, NYT writer with the same name as the pro NFL star that was getting flammed:
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Had just gotten her grades and was comparing with the other girls at the rink who had just gotten theirs like most kids do. Many of the kids at her old rink (where I skate) are very book smart and I suspect they were competing on # of A's in upper level classes like they do on # of triples landed.
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I propose the next round be battled out Twitter style, with limited number of words per shot, in accordance with the origin of this thread as well as for the benefits of us ignoramuses.
Lest it seems unfair to AUDIT, let me point out the advantage of big words in such a restrictive format. After all there are more than one way to be verbose.
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