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Diamonds Are Bullshit
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#12Gah! The writer needs to read this: http://www.its-not-its.info/
I used to make posts like this. I'm starting to feel like these words will merge in the next 100 years, and either form will be correct for all usages.
This kind of errata in our language doesn't help us do anything and it just causes confusion and frustration.
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#13"So here is a modest proposal: Let’s agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process. Let’s admit that as a society we got tricked for about century into coveting sparkling pieces of carbon, but it’s time to end the nonsense."
Hear hear, but good luck convincing zillions of single women that they'll be the first generation in living memory to miss out on their carbon.
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#14Isn't it much better to get very expensive gold jewelry instead of diamonds if one wants some?
That's also shiny and should keep its value much better (since gold requires nuclear reaction to make).
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#15Gah! The writer needs to read this: http://www.its-not-its.info/
I used to make posts like this. I'm starting to feel like these words will merge in the next 100 years, and either form will be correct for all usages. This kind of errata in our language doesn't help us do anything and it just causes confusion and frustration.
I'm going to delete this post in 30 minutes, but man, I'm just screaming to say... it is so peculiar that he consistently kept making that mistake (along with a bunch of other ones). It looks like the guy is a graduate from Stanford's business school... and is the co-founder of Pricenomics. What the heck.
Edit: heh, I guess I won't delete it now (to preserve continuity of extant conversation). Sorry.
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#16It's nice to be married to a woman who agrees. And a jewelers daughter at that!
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#17Maybe I'm spoiled as a nerdy (and interested in nerdy) gay guy, but I pity those in this thread saying that their fiancee wouldn't listen to reason about this. It slays me that "tradition" is so important to people that they will waste such vast amounts of money and prop up such a gross, violent industry in the face of reason.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to make posts like this. I'm starting to feel like these words will merge in the next 100 years, and either form will be correct for all usages. This kind of errata in our language doesn't help us do anything and it just causes confusion and frustration.
I'm going to delete this post in 30 minutes, but man, I'm just screaming to say... it is so peculiar that he consistently kept making that mistake (along with a bunch of other ones). It looks like the guy is a graduate from Stanford's business school... and is the co-founder of Pricenomics. What the heck. Edit: heh, I guess I won't delete it now (to preserve continuity of extant conversation). Sorry.
Because grammatical ability is correlated with business acumen?
Edit: sorry Clicks it was too tempting :)
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#19Logically and financially, sure... but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
> but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
Yes, how else would you start reversing it?
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#20Logically and financially, sure... but try telling your fiancée-to-be that.
Try sending her this article. I'd rather be single than marry someone who has so much more emotion than logic. To put it another way: If the ring is more important to the woman than I am, then she's not marrying me, she's marrying the ring. It's a huge red flag to me.
| If the ring is more important to the
| woman than I am, then she's not marrying
| me, she's marrying the ring