help bot wrote:
David Richerby wrote:
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"
Well it might not be clear *to you*. In the same way that the
sentence `Je suis Anglais' might not be clear *to you* if you don't
speak French. People have tried, at great length, to explain it to
you, citing numerous examples, but you refuse to listen.
You're sounding like somebody who is obstinately refusing to accept
that a heavier-than-air vehicle could possibly fly, even after being
taken to several airports.
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);
Would it help if I pointed out that, in online gaming environments,
chat usually appears somewhat as in the script of a play:
Jack: hello
Jill: How are you?
Thus, if somebody were to write `killzjoo', it would appear on screen
as
Fred: killzjoo
which is quite close to `Fred kills you'. Further, there are often
commands to cause the colon to be omitted. On IRC, you can type `/me
does such-and-such', which will typically cause the line to be
rendered as
***Alice does such-and-such
rather than
Alice: does such-and-such
So, does `***Fred killzjoo' look close enough to `Fred kills you' that
you might actually accept that you are wrong and that the many
documented cases you've been shown are genuine?
3) and he also allowed a crazy spelling of the word "you" so his
theorized sentence would make some kind of sense.
Oh no! Crazy spellings! Nobody ever uses those! Nobody has ever
said `I can haz cheezburger' because it's both ungrammatical and
contains spelling mistakes! It can't possibly mean `I have a
cheeseburger'!
Dave.
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