On Mar 28, 9:58 pm, David Richerby
wrote:[i]
help bot wrote:
On Mar 23, 9:06 am, wrote:
You wish to force that FICS user to pick another name because you
are offended over a very common gaming term that was clearly used
to mean " Kills you"

Someone is really "reaching" here.

First of all, the brackets to *insert* a missing word from out of
the blue. Note also the fact that /even with the inserted word/,
the sentence is not even grammatically correct.

You are obviously not familiar with, say `All your base are belong
to us' or lolcats (`I can haz cheezburger' etc.). Grammatical
English isn't even on the radar of these internet memes.


The claim was that it **clearly** meant
"I kill you", which is ridiculous unless it is
both clear and obvious that this was the
intended meaning. It certainly is not clear
to me, and in fact, I was convinced at one
point that "kill zie Jew" (there are a LOT of
Hollywood movies which obsess over this
WWII stuff and which have Nazi's speaking
English, but with a strong German accent).

Now I see that there are kiddies who
deliberately muck up the English language
even more than it already is by nature, but
this is no more convincing than zie other
guess, since if you toss out grammar and
"making sense", it is possible to construct
an infinite number of monikers at random,
and then hypothesize that it means
something else.

This guy had to make several modifications
of the moniker in question just to compete:

1) he inserted a word (I) so the purported
sentence would have a "subject";

2) he allowed a plural where the singular
was obviously called for (kills);

3) and he also allowed a crazy spelling
of the word "you" so his theorized
sentence would make some kind of
sense.

I can certainly accept that this lunacy is
just as good a theory as "kill zie Jew", but
I seriously doubt it is "clear" unless and
until it is established that the person in
question is a die-hard gamer, not a neo-Nazi.
:D


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