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None of this matters. Here's the real question that drives me absolutely bonkers.
Why, on City-Data, do so many people leave off the "s" on words ending in "ist" when it is clear they are meant to be plural?
First example, see the title of this thread.
But, I also see it when people talk about "all the terrorist are in the Middle East" or "feminist all hate men" or "I think all psychiatrist are quacks".
Do these people SAY it that way? Is there something about typing "ist" that makes it difficult to add the "s" to the end? WHAT? WHAT?
If you haven't noticed it before, you will now.
So people who drop the s from ist are on your _hit list.....er, lists?
Panic and desperation.
A person falling a cliff and down a loose shale bank will still grab a thin, spindly twig in the vain hope it may break his fall or cry "Mommy!" even though she's been dead 10 years.
As for calling out to god, I doubt this would even happen unless instilled past instinct still lingered from
having been brought up in a religious atmosphere
Good analogy, and I think very true.
When under stress even religious people say and do things they don't mean. I too grew up in a very religious family, and when someone hit their thumb with a hammer.....I still heard words that we weren't supposed to say....lol.
It's because of the demons within autocorrect /AUTOFILL. It fills in the singular word and then you need to backspace for the plural to come up. And that's demons are within Android just as much as within Microsoft. .
I suppose, but I use both products and I don't do that. I don't rely on autocorrect or auto fill-ins.
I am the weird woman with the Sharpie fixing the misspelled signs in the produce department.
So people who drop the s from ist are on your _hit list.....er, lists?
Ha, very clever.
But, yes. I think in the back of my head I shave a few points off their perceived IQs, the same as when I see people type things like "Walla!" or "per say".
That's not really an R&S topic, and we have a long-running set of threads in the Writing forum called "I Can't Take It Anymore" that deals with such things.
It's just that being on this forum, I see it with "atheist" so often.
There may be some direct relationship between the number of new made up words and the degree to which you are being swindled. When you hear something like "Potenizing", then alarms should go off, lights should go on and a huge banner saying "You Are Being Hornswoggled" drops from the roof.
In the ad I was describing in my previous post, one of the clips shows a split screen. On the left is an elderly guy looking like a sad sack, saying "I thought I'd never be able to walk again pain free." On the right side of the screen is a clip of the same guy, looking robust and energetic, taking a big golf swing. And that was all there was to it....no mention of any specific malady, no reason given as to why the fellow had concluded that he would never walk pain free again, no mention of him being treated by anyone, just the scene and at the bottom of the screen, the clinic's name, which I forget, "Wholeness Awareness Holistic Care Center" or something like that. It was certainly designed to leave you with the impression that this was someone who had been cured by the clinic, but they avoided making any such claim.
For all we know the fellow may have decided he would never walk pain free again after stubbing his toe, or being so advised by a witch doctor. For all we know the golf shot could have been taken a few years before the sad sack picture. For all we know he was just some grade Z actor they hired to say the line and pose swinging a golf club.
I'm inclined to think that it's like a lot of advertising - the people proclaiming the virtues of the product have never been near it.
But of course advertising isn't the issue. Are those who have swallowed the product getting anything from it, or are we in Faith-healing territory again? Back to prayer again, if people have the Faith, you gottem. The 'healing' will look after itself.
I have not prayed in over 11 years, and in that time, I never thought to pray to deities of any kind, least of all the Abrahamic deities. And while I am agnostic relative to a First Cause, that lack of knowledge of its existence would also logically extend to its characteristics and attributes. It may not be an "entity" that needs to be invoked through prayer. Prayer would suggest said entity has anthropocentric characteristics like that of classical, philosophical theism. It suggests in intervenes in human affairs. I reject classical theism and therefore the characteristics and attributes of its proposed "higher power." Prayer is not on my radar. It just...isn't. Even during hardships and scary times (atheists in foxholes). I didn't pray after losing my first son. I didn't pray when an IED hit my first husband's convoy and several of his men were injured and there was a communication blackout and I didn't pray when I bled out and went into early stages of shock during childbirth.
Even if I did believe in a First Cause, e.g. "I believe something created the multiverses...somehow." It doesn't logically follow that I must also believe in prayer since this practice is rooted in traditions and rituals with deity concepts that exhibit specific characteristics and attributes.
Skeptics, as opposed to "I'm mad at religion and therefore an ATHEIST/AGNOSTIC" are unlikely to find themselves praying to deities they believe are fictional or mythical characters.
That's a good point. The Bible-believers, praying to Jesus and getting no response will just keep on until they either die or things get better. Prayer answered. They don't say 'Let's try Thor, or Osiris,or Inzanagi', instead, and when 'things get better'. "So it was Ganesh, all the time. Whodathunkit? I'd better let everyone know."
None of this matters. Here's the real question that drives me absolutely bonkers.
Why, on City-Data, do so many people leave off the "s" on words ending in "ist" when it is clear they are meant to be plural?
First example, see the title of this thread.
But, I also see it when people talk about "all the terrorist are in the Middle East" or "feminist all hate men" or "I think all psychiatrist are quacks".
Do these people SAY it that way? Is there something about typing "ist" that makes it difficult to add the "s" to the end? WHAT? WHAT?
If you haven't noticed it before, you will now.
I bleep over it it in my head. I'm in no position to point the fury -trembling figner at other's typoe's.
When under stress even religious people say and do things they don't mean. I too grew up in a very religious family, and when someone hit their thumb with a hammer.....I still heard words that we weren't supposed to say....lol.
"Daddy, how can Jesus be doing that? He's supposed the BE Christ, isn't he?"
But, yes. I think in the back of my head I shave a few points off their perceived IQs, the same as when I see people type things like "Walla!" or "per say".
That's not really an R&S topic, and we have a long-running set of threads in the Writing forum called "I Can't Take It Anymore" that deals with such things.
It's just that being on this forum, I see it with "atheist" so often.
Obviously we have a need for an Unrep. facility. "Your post sucked. 10 points from Griffindor". And I'm just Truly Thankful if they spell Athiest right. We are a noun, not an adjective.
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