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[Lexicus]

Troof. I has a troof. It my troof. It's spethal. Only spethal people get my troof.

-Lex

It doesn't speak well of you to mock the disabled in this way. It also, ironically, illustrates my point that the sanctity of human life is not what concerns the prohibitionists.

It could certainly be true of some people who label themselves as "pro-life", but you'd have to explain it to me in words of one syllable or less how you'd know that it applies to all of them.

Since I never made any claim about "all of them" I feel no obligation to explain anything to you. All I said was that a large proportion - don't know it exactly, of course - vote for the Republican Party, the party of death, the party whose position on climate change makes it a de facto omnicidal cult.

 

[Borachio]

Well, forgive me for reading your post inexactly. I can't read your mind either, it would seem.

If you didn't mean all of them, why didn't you say so? There's nothing in the post that I read that says anything about a large proportion.

The default interpretation for your sentence as written is that you do mean all of them.

And, furthermore, there's nothing in my post that demands that you do anything at all. Far less places you under an obligation to explain anything.

I believe I used to the subjunctive (or do I mean the conditional?) to indicate this.

 

[Lexicus]

If you didn't mean all of them, why didn't you say so?

Exactly this. The "pro-life" are better known as prohibitionists or something similar because some very large proportion of them support policies that demonstrably lead to more death and in particular to more preventable child deaths.

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh, I'm not making fun of disabled people Lex. I'm making fun of you, specifically. I don't do lolcats to mock people with Downs or whatever cross you want to hide behind. The response to cutlass may be crude, but it does contain respect. In the next post, I was seeking to make its omission as obvious as in what it was responding to.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh, I'm not making fun of disabled people Lex.

You know full well what you were doing. It is the equivalent of attempting to insult me by calling me black and then saying you weren't making fun of black people, just me.

The response to cutlass may be crude, but it does contain respect.

I must say this respect is difficult to discern.

 

[Farm Boy]

I'll accept lolcat grammar criticisms from @Valka D'Ur if she wants to do it and edit appropriately. However, in my experience you're going to see whatever the hell you want to see and that's really about all there is to it.

 

[Borachio]

Well, excuse me, then. I never read that post.

I read the one, quoted by Mr Boy, that says:

"Pro-life" Americans could not possibly care less whether the children live or die. The only thing that matters to them is that the mother does not have a choice.

Which isn't, as it turns out, your post at all.

But I originally responded to your post decrying the response that Mr Boy made to the post above.

So I presumed that you endorsed it.

:shrug:

If you don't you don't.

 

[warpus]

IMO the term "pro-life" is an appeal to emotion the exact same way "anti-choice" would be

 

[Lexicus]

If you don't you don't.

I do endorse it but I understand that it's a generalization.

 

[Arakhor]

Let's get back to the thread topic, please.

 

[Cutlass]

.!.. ..!.

Yes, I understand that you are different from most. Do you understand how great of an extent you are as an outlier? As in, people like you don't even add up to the rounding error in the statistics.

 

[Synobun]

Yes, I understand that you are different from most. Do you understand how great of an extent you are as an outlier? As in, people like you don't even add up to the rounding error in the statistics.

Let's get back to the thread topic, please.

Moderator Action: Let's make that official.

 

[Cutlass]

I owed Farm Boy an answer. You can have your regularly scheduled programming back afterwards.

Moderator Action: It is not up to you to decide what we can or cannot have. PDMA is against the rules. You can have your final say in a discussion privately but not publicly when the person you are responding to has been infracted and a mod note has been made saying to drop it.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[Arakhor]

Uh, Rule Britannia?

(Portugal is a surprise, though.)

 

[Kyriakos]

This is what you were looking for here, right?

https://jakubmarian.com/number-of-foreign-languages-studied-per-pupil-in-europe/
(They want to be credited this way, which is an odd thing to tell the user because the map itself already does that.)

Ehm, 1.0 can't be right, though. Studying a second language (almost always english) is actually mandatory in greek schools, so the average would have to be at least a little bit over 1

Unless this is just framed as a "how many foreign language courses are you offered to study by mandatory school policy in the last 3 years of school" which is a really dumb stat fwiw. Afaik most schools offer the program to study up to 2 foreign languages, but not in the last 3 years - cause then you prepare for the national exams, so it would be pointless to study that in school; wouldn't be spending time in classes for english and french or other when you are nearing the university exam.
That said, private schools for foreign languages are very popular here.

 

[Arakhor]

I don't know why Serbia, Bosnia etc. have unavailable data. Switzerland is just weird.

 

[Lohrenswald]

What's upper secondary

 

[Arakhor]

Secondary education would be 11+, so I'm guessing it's either GCSE (15-16) or A-level (17-18) equivalent.

 

[Lohrenswald]

11+

GCSE (15-16)

A-level (17-18)

I don't know what any of this means

 

[Arakhor]

I thought it might be EU-related, but Norway, Iceland and Cyprus are featured as well.

I don't know what any of this means

Those are people's ages when taking those tests.