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Pitch Hitter wrote:I used to think I understood it pretty well, but your post has me thrown.

There's a dissonance between the fact that it's a parody of my post and that the author intends to cast doubt on my understanding of the English language. The idea my post was implying was meant by me to be seen as true, dmt has only read one comic and this is it. No irony or sarcasm is to be found in the post, although perhaps in the real world as it is unlikely that this is the first comic dmt has ever read. My post meant what it said.

Fucking Owned (herein referred to as FO), uses the same framework as "congratulations on reading your first comic", but changes it to say "congratulations on your understanding of the english language". FO is saying that I do not understand the English language, but his chosen method of conveying this makes it sound like he is truly saying that I do understand it and that to understand English is not a good thing. FO denigrates English rather than Pitch Hitter.

I believe what FO meant was that my lack of capitalisation and punctuation showed a lack of understanding of english. However, understanding a language and being able to express yourself within it are not the same thing. It is generally agreed that when a person can make themselves understood in English, they can understand others trivially.

I understand what has happened. FO is not a witty person. FO has chosen to "throw my words in my face", however FO has a very weak throwing arm and has inadvertently shown his lack of understanding of English, the very accusation he levelled against me! What a pity.

PS. There is a strong possibility that dmt and Fucking Owned are the same person. In which case I would say, Jesus, pick a name. Pick a fucking name.

Sahan wrote:

DannyBoy wrote:Are you aware that the standard term from baseball is "pinch hitter"? That's not to say one can't use variants of fixed expressions, but your particular variant doesn't seem to do anything clever or special with the idea, and may even weaken it into something of a redundancy (in this context, it's always a pitch that gets hit, so a pitch hitter is not different from a hitter [tout court).

Are you aware that you're talking out of your arse, perhaps in the hope that maybe someone will come up to you, congratulate you and finally show you the respect you deserve as the fine intellectual you see yourself as? It's funny how you talked about context. I always thought context was something you grasped by actually seeing the bigger picture, but apparently you can observe the inner workings of an apparently lesser mind than yours just by looking at his username on a forum and nothing else, so I guess I must be wrong.

DannyBoy wrote:Are you aware that the standard term from baseball is "pinch hitter"? That's not to say one can't use variants of fixed expressions, but your particular variant doesn't seem to do anything clever or special with the idea, and may even weaken it into something of a redundancy (in this context, it's always a pitch that gets hit, so a pitch hitter is not different from a hitter [tout court).

Apples are an okay fruit. wrote:Huh, whether the comic was funny or not, and however weak an internet rebuttal might have been, you're still a prick.

And I'm a prick for pointing it out.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Internet - Asshats all the way down.

Apples are an okay fruit. wrote:Huh, whether the comic was funny or not, and however weak an internet rebuttal might have been, you're still a prick.

And I'm a prick for pointing it out.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Internet - Asshats all the way down.