See that’s the point- I’m not offended. I’m calling out rudeness. Please don’t twist my words.
"Polya" vs."poly"
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See that’s the point- I’m not offended. I’m calling out rudeness. Please don’t twist my words.
Sorry you're lazy and petty enough to stoop and pick up nothing. Mags didn't deserve your pettiness
Technically you are - at 38 I am at the very edge of Millenial, soooo...
FallenAngelina
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Well, I'll be darned, you're right.
"Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation."
They used to call mine "The ME Generation," and we all seemed to have survived the ribbing.
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Thank £#&% at 1978 I'm still Gen X.
Generation names aside, I liked being a child of the 80s and coming of age in the 90s. Even if we didn't have the vocab yet to describe every possible nuance of gender and sexuality, or at least not outside the Women's Studies departments of the universities. LGBT existed, although perhaps not commonly in that order. Poly anything didn't seem to have that name, and most importantly, the internet was in its infancy.
Generation names aside, I liked being a child of the 80s and coming of age in the 90s. Even if we didn't have the vocab yet to describe every possible nuance of gender and sexuality, or at least not outside the Women's Studies departments of the universities. LGBT existed, although perhaps not commonly in that order. Poly anything didn't seem to have that name, and most importantly, the internet was in its infancy.
I'm not a millennial and ref wasn't being lazy, petty or rude to me.
I'm pretty sure, knowing ref, it was just a joke.
YouAreHere
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"English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
vinsanity0
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Those darn Islanders glomming on to our culture...lol
Who came up with this pseudo-spelling, Pasifika? Reminds me of Amerika.
White guys named it the Pacific Ocean because they thought it looked peaceful. Ha. It has storms just like anywhere else. And battles and wars.
Adding a "k" instead of a "c" was a nice try to make it sound less Latin, I guess.
I do think Oceania is a better term because it isn't reflecting any European sensibility, other than being an English word for large body of water. Like how we don't say "the Orient" anymore, thereby referring to Europe as the epicenter of civilization.
White guys named it the Pacific Ocean because they thought it looked peaceful. Ha. It has storms just like anywhere else. And battles and wars.
Adding a "k" instead of a "c" was a nice try to make it sound less Latin, I guess.
I do think Oceania is a better term because it isn't reflecting any European sensibility, other than being an English word for large body of water. Like how we don't say "the Orient" anymore, thereby referring to Europe as the epicenter of civilization.
SlowPoly
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I don't know anyone's actual reasons in this case, but the fact that c makes both sounds in the one word is a good example of why I wish we only used s and k for their respective sounds. /kurmudjion
There are no Cs in the written expression of the regional languages.
If anyone is interested, have a quick google of "Samoan alphabet" (or Tongan or Rarotongan etc.) and try image searches for posters as these will show all the omitted letters.
As such, NZ currently uses the term Pasifika as an umbrella term. http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2014/0...ling-some-common-myths-about-the-pacific.html
Yes, it's government coined. Yes there are NZ citizens of island descent in government as well as advisory organisations who agreed with it. Yes it is likely to be superseded in my lifetime.
Thanks for the explanation from NZ!