Posted on 04/12/2011 10:17:57 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
And it would not have come to this had some posters not used Latin to curse other posters, personally.
So the guideline now is that, unless the term is widely understood (e.g. adios) - translate it to English.
What if I say the incessant criticisms were instrumental in moving the hitherto unformulated dissatisfactions from the subconscious to the conscious mind -- is that not allowed because all freepers can't read it?
If it is taken to mean read by all Posters then all English words of more than one syllable would be banned to bring it to the lowest common denominator.
Your objection is disingenuous.
What if I say the incessant criticisms were instrumental in moving the hitherto unformulated dissatisfactions from the subconscious to the conscious mind -- is that not allowed because all freepers can't read it?
Latin is also not a foreign language in the US as we use it in our courts, in science, in even ordinary day to day language (habeus corpus). If someone wants to check what I meant, then this IS an internet forum, it is googlable
ergo. Latin is not a foreign language nor any less understandable than English wherein one may opt to comment on an prestidigitator being pulchritudinous but pusillanimous. One can then object to the utilization of words such as exegesis in any religious post then as being "not readable by all Freepers"
This site is meant for conservatives and we are a good sight more intelligent than liberals, especially to the levels at which we may cite multitudinous points to prove that conservatism (From the Latin, conservare) works.
If you want to post in some language other than English, then translate whatever you are saying into English.
So, I can freely say that someone is pusillanimous?
You say that a statement is pusillanimous, bigoted, mean, stupid, etc. But if you say that about a Freeper, individually, that would be “making it personal.”
Thanks. That's interesting. Makes sense.
It’s against the rules of the Religion Forum to post in foreign languages without a translation.
I had no problem with giving an English translation and told the mod so. I did not give one originally because I did not find a good one right away.
By the way congratulations on becoming a moderator. You have been doing the job long enough without official sanction it is about time they passed the torch to you with full honors.
The RM instituted that rule after some Catholics were posting exorcism prayers to non-Catholics in Latin.
Now, Dr. E was doing you a favor by telling you of that so you wouldn’t get in trouble with the RM. On the other thread, you were just expressing concern about not wanting to break the RF rules.
I don’t understand why people get in such a snit when someone tries to help them out. Dr. E is not making up the rules and her telling you what they are does not mean that she has become a mod or is playing one.
If you’d like, we could just not tell you when you’re breaking the rules and let you take the fall yourself and find out the hard way. Would you prefer that?
Oh, Doctor, what lovely rules! I am so enraptured!
I'm sure all in question appreciate your attempts at strict enforcement. After all, there is no rule against playing at moderator. Heck, lets all try our hand at it!
Be advised, I am not implying in any way that the clergy guy pictured is you.
The mod had already made that requested and I complied with his request. This was before Dr E decided to play mod.
I should have addressed my answer to both of you. My apologies for that shortcoming.
Is that rain on my leg???
Well, your post came before the RM’s post so it would be not be unexpected for someone reading and replying to the posts in numerical order on the thread to reply to your comment before reading the RM’s comment.
I’d hazard a guess that Dr. E did not see the RM’s comment at the time she posted hers. If she’d seen it, there’d have been no need for her to add to it.
You are of course free to put a charitable interpretation on Dr E’s post. In that you are (and I am being sincere) a better person than I.
Dianne: “Methinks the lady doth protest too much!”
Woody: “Shouldn’t that be ‘I thinks’ Miss Chambers?
Your posts are an excellent example of half-way condemnation, always ending in a caveat that these priests aren't really to blame because either the statue of limitations has expired and people's memories fade and we don't really know the truth and children can lie and the victims were adolescents and not children...
yadayadayada.
Mistakes were made.
Your posts are also an excellent example in answer to the question -- how do Roman Catholics end up ignoring all the corruption at the center of their church?
Simple. By ALWAYS giving the benefit of the doubt to the priests and ALWAYS finding reason to blame the victims and their nasty lawyers and the "anti-Catholic" public.
You can criticize our response to your posts all day long. But your posts are online for all of us to read for ourselves. And the vast majority of those posts always end in some variation of -- "but we must also understand that..."
lolol
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