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Met Any 'Linguistic Sadists' Lately?
Feb 13, 2017 11:29:42   #
Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton
 
What are they?

"They torture language until we're at a loss for words".

How many times have we (and I do mean all of us) made a post or started a topic, and been assailed by some idiot whose only intent seems to be to contort and twist every word into a pretzel-like misrepresentation of the original statement? We see it here every day, but now I have a name for it - 'linguistic sadism'. Perhaps that's because they don't want the idea, represented by those words, to have any force, so they chew it up and spit it out in a totally distorted form. I've seen it also described as 'intellectual misdirection' but that's quite a mouthful and doesn't really put the finger on it. 'Linguistic
sadism', on the other hand, fits quite nicely.

I thought about using it in Latin form, like 'non sequitur' or 'ad hominem', but 'linguae sadism' just doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, so 'linguistic sadism' it is then.

In case you're wondering where all this started, you can blame Jim Babka:

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a62f6d3a19ffbd4c6852a4c85&id=139c0ab969&e=aa18da87ff

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Feb 13, 2017 11:35:55   #
Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton
 
Larry the Legend wrote:
What are they?

"They torture language until we're at a loss for words".

How many times have we (and I do mean all of us) made a post or started a topic, and been assailed by some idiot whose only intent seems to be to contort and twist every word into a pretzel-like misrepresentation of the original statement? We see it here every day, but now I have a name for it - 'linguistic sadism'. Perhaps that's because they don't want the idea, represented by those words, to have any force, so they chew it up and spit it out in a totally distorted form. I've seen it also described as 'intellectual misdirection' but that's quite a mouthful and doesn't really put the finger on it. 'Linguistic
sadism', on the other hand, fits quite nicely.

I thought about using it in Latin form, like 'non sequitur' or 'ad hominem', but 'linguae sadism' just doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, so 'linguistic sadism' it is then.

In case you're wondering where all this started, you can blame Jim Babka:

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a62f6d3a19ffbd4c6852a4c85&id=139c0ab969&e=aa18da87ff
What are they? br br "They torture language ... (show quote)



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Feb 13, 2017 14:32:58   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
Larry the Legend wrote:
What are they?

"They torture language until we're at a loss for words".

How many times have we (and I do mean all of us) made a post or started a topic, and been assailed by some idiot whose only intent seems to be to contort and twist every word into a pretzel-like misrepresentation of the original statement? We see it here every day, but now I have a name for it - 'linguistic sadism'. Perhaps that's because they don't want the idea, represented by those words, to have any force, so they chew it up and spit it out in a totally distorted form. I've seen it also described as 'intellectual misdirection' but that's quite a mouthful and doesn't really put the finger on it. 'Linguistic
sadism', on the other hand, fits quite nicely.

I thought about using it in Latin form, like 'non sequitur' or 'ad hominem', but 'linguae sadism' just doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, so 'linguistic sadism' it is then.

In case you're wondering where all this started, you can blame Jim Babka:

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a62f6d3a19ffbd4c6852a4c85&id=139c0ab969&e=aa18da87ff
What are they? br br "They torture language ... (show quote)


Isn't this akin to Sophistry?

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Feb 13, 2017 14:34:40   #
Big Bass
 
Larry the Legend wrote:
What are they?

"They torture language until we're at a loss for words".

How many times have we (and I do mean all of us) made a post or started a topic, and been assailed by some idiot whose only intent seems to be to contort and twist every word into a pretzel-like misrepresentation of the original statement? We see it here every day, but now I have a name for it - 'linguistic sadism'. Perhaps that's because they don't want the idea, represented by those words, to have any force, so they chew it up and spit it out in a totally distorted form. I've seen it also described as 'intellectual misdirection' but that's quite a mouthful and doesn't really put the finger on it. 'Linguistic
sadism', on the other hand, fits quite nicely.

I thought about using it in Latin form, like 'non sequitur' or 'ad hominem', but 'linguae sadism' just doesn't have the same 'ring' to it, so 'linguistic sadism' it is then.

In case you're wondering where all this started, you can blame Jim Babka:

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a62f6d3a19ffbd4c6852a4c85&id=139c0ab969&e=aa18da87ff
What are they? br br "They torture language ... (show quote)


I'm a cunning linguist.

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Feb 13, 2017 15:35:54   #
Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton
 
Big Bass wrote:
I'm a cunning linguist.


Now that's a sophistry!

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Feb 13, 2017 15:41:33   #
Big Bass
 
Larry the Legend wrote:
Now that's a sophistry!


I've had no complaints. Sophistry is the art of using fallacious (NOT fellatious) arguments, therefore, I would call my statement a pun.

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Feb 13, 2017 16:57:55   #
Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton
 
Big Bass wrote:
I've had no complaints. Sophistry is the art of using fallacious (NOT fellatious) arguments, therefore, I would call my statement a pun.


Oooooooh!

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Feb 14, 2017 11:52:33   #
crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
 
Big Bass wrote:
I've had no complaints. Sophistry is the art of using fallacious (NOT fellatious) arguments, therefore, I would call my statement a pun.



Don't blow things out of proportion.

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Feb 14, 2017 16:53:53   #
boatbob2
 
big bass,you spelled it wrong,should be cunnilingus.....

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Feb 14, 2017 16:56:33   #
Big Bass
 
boatbob2 wrote:
big bass,you spelled it wrong,should be cunnilingus.....


Isn't that an Irish Airline? ( ) And Genitalia an Italian Airline?

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