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Immigration in Canada. (pg. 15)
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
I'm amazed at how many words you can write without actually saying anything. Allow me to translate: "Fahad smart, you dumb, you just no understand him. |
lol just because you are an absolutist it doesn't mean you have to criticize relativists when they demonstrate their perspective of an issue. Your argument doesn't stand as fact, no matter how many Wikipedia references you make. Also, I never attempted to "trump" your argument as absolutists and relativists will always agree to disagree.
I was trying to highlight what I believe to be a more important point in this immigration issue which is that the norms and values of Canadian society have evolved over the years to a more egalitarian society. I don't need facts to prove this. This means that realistically, the Queen is not some supreme being above us, however we respect her sovereignty by labelling our court cases, "R. v. ABC" or other immaterial aspects of life, where we could easily replace "R" with "Canada" and none of us would notice the difference.
This is why I don't think a discussion of ownership is the question here, and I criticized you for attacking Ania's discussion of the same (in her highlighting Aboriginal rights to this land). In a way, she was making the same argument as me because she's saying if Aboriginals don't own this land (which they don't), then no one does.
Those people who fought wars centuries ago did so to establish the foundations of a democratic system which has evolved to what it is today. Please save us from your opinions of what dead white men's intentions were when they founded Canada, because what they fought for wasn't the same as when Trudeau established the Charter.
Canada has a very unique history which evolved very slowly, impacted by both the U.S. and the U.K. No need to give any facts here, just go read up on Canada's history on Wikipedia.
This is the content I was providing to support my claim that you're focusing on the wrong aspects of this issue. I can only imagine that you were doing so to demonstrate your intelligence using a very convenient "absolutist" angle.
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
I will ask you, as I asked him, to please address the content of the debate instead of getting tangled up in meta-debates. That's three times in a row you've done this; if you don't have a point to make, then don't say anything. |
lol so you believe a debate can only occur in the form of logical statements of fact? Unfortunately with this type of issue, opinion and perspective (i.e. relative vs. universal) are necessary so good luck with your line of reasoning, where only your friends will support you. :rolleyes:
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
and PS. Fahad - I can't BELIEVE you made a chimerical tautology! That's just unacceptable abuse of the right of every citizen to chimerically tautologize! Further chimericization of tautolotitties only results in a catastrophe of unprecedented supercalifradgalisticexpialidocious! I think you owe Aaron here one serious chimerical APOLOGY :tongue2 |
LMFAO
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| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Ted Rogers may not intervene much in the daily affairs of Rogers Corporation, but he still owns it. |
Get your facts straight. |
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| El K Dee |
im tempted to read over the last page....
.....but ive been practicing self control toward temptation...so i guess i wont...ah well |
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| Kamka |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Iff yer tring to maik a sireus pont then u shud endevver 2 speel yur werds korrecktly. Actually, I agree with you and Graham that pointing out a person's spelling and grammatical errors accomplishes precisely nothing in the way of debunking their argument; however, that doesn't change the fact that a large number of posts are steaming piles of dog and make me want to gouge my eyes out.
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In the end, I'm honestly not sure who is worse, the spelling Nazis or the people who write the fodder for them. |
Hmm, spelling debate. I have to admit myself that although I usually try to spell all my words correctly, sometimes I do unintentionally make the occasional glitch. I agree that messages which don't properly assign their/they're/there or you're vs. your are annoying to read. It seems to be a simple concept, really: one is a contraction of the present continuous verb tense, and the other is a possesive pronoun, if I'm correct? Same thing with their/they're. People should really try to pay more attention to maintaining some sort of a "level" in their posts, if you get what I mean... However, as a true language freak myself, I have to admit that I myself sometimes make a few stupid spelling errors as well. For me, the reason so happening is simple: my first native language is a so-called "phonetic" language, which means that words are mostly spelled exactly as they are pronounced (mostly, because there are a lot of exceptions and a few rules which create some funny linguistic situations), and that for some reason makes it hard for me to remember the correct spelling of certain English words which have doubled consonants, such as happenned, tommorrow, and others (none come to mind right now, but when I write an e-mail, I sometimes utilise its spell-checker and I am often surprised as to how many of this kind of mispellings it finds). Although I started learning English at an age where you could still be considered acquiring it as a "native learner", somehow the L1 interference for this particular feature is still there with me. I find however, that it's improving a bit, after I had to manually correct all the mispelled words in a few of my e-mails.
Does that make me a spelling dimwitt who can't use the English language properly? :conf: |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Dude - go back and read his reply to my post.
He FULLY suggested that he is better than me and anyone else who didn't finish high school at 16 and followed it with some BS banter on his skewed perceptions of race and equality.
That kind of arrogant attempt to highlight one's academic success followed by a mess of a response that is littered with all kinds of linguistic errors warrants all kinds of criticism.
Although I really DO feel sorry for him now that everyone has verbally beaten him up.
Furthermore... good grammar is sexy. |
Which was after you called him an idiot, or stupid, or whatever it was. He was retaliating to whatever you said to him. So really, it was you that started the immature row.
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Wow... I seriously seriously feel so bad for you
like - from the bottom of my heart...
you sound like a *FLAMING* IDIOT - LOL!!
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Further chimericization of tautolotitties only results in ... |
Uh uhuuuh huhhh uhuh... she thaid titties |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
In Canada (like most countries) you can earn the privilege to a free post-secondary education if you want it bad enough. ;)
Furthermore, the fact that there are waiting lists for international students wanting to attend our universities (despite increasing internation student tuitions) is not consistent with your theory. |
The fact that you can earn a free pass wasn't really the point though, so I'm not really certain why you brought that up. Working to earn the priviledge opposed to knowing you can get into at least a 'basic' post-secondary education are different points.
Waiting lists are indicative of what exactly? Arguably, one can say that there are waiting lists in free overseas institutions as well (from my own experience). Furthermore, look at some of the schools in the US. They apparently have some fairly long waiting lists, accompanied by fairly large tuitions. Can that translate to better education, or merely more prestigious names and degree recognition?
Anyways, we might as well drop this one, its really pointless. |
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| Ania_xox |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
Which was after you called him an idiot, or stupid, or whatever it was. He was retaliating to whatever you said to him. So really, it was you that started the immature row. |
Actually, I said he *sounded* like an idiot and attempted to give him the benefit of the doubt by suggesting that perhaps what he had written was prompted by a momentary lapse in judgement (as we all experience those from time to time).
I was responding to what I found in HIS post to be immature and not properly thought out.
I'm a nice girl lol
I don't go around arbitrarily dumping censure on people. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Arguing about how people argue is even more ING LAME than arguing about someone's spelling mistakes. You guys *cough*Graham*cough* are ruining an otherwise entertaining thread. Shut up! |
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| Swamper |
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| Silky Johnson |
I think Del approves.
Let this thread continue as a roll call! |
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| English Rachel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
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One of my all-time favs
Did anyone do the immigration test? |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Actually, I said he *sounded* like an idiot |
lol
This sounds like what I used to say to my mom after my brother and I got into a fight when we were small.
"But mom, I didn't say he was an idiot, I said he sounded like an idiot."
They are both offensive. |
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