Thursday, April 11, 2013

Extra-Bad Writing, Thinking, and Whatnot.

Jay Nordlinger's writing about something else, but this is what he opens with:
In the English-speaking societies — which still include America, for now — we have this thing called a “hate crime.” There’s regular old assault, murder, and whatnot. And then there’s extra-bad assault, murder, and whatnot. You know how it works.
Strangely, New York resident Nordlinger is unaware that extra-bad-murder is not a new concept.

8 comments:

  1. It's not really extra-bad enough unless it can be called terrorism.

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  2. It's extra-bad only when committed by people Nordlinger doesn't like.
    ~

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  3. Seems like an exploration of extra-bad marriage is in order....

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  4. In the English-speaking societies — which still include America, for now

    Jesus Christo, que pendejo!

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  5. In the English-speaking societies — which still include America, for now — we have this thing called a “hate crime.”

    So, if America gets excluded from the English-speaking societies there will be no more hate crimes? Cool, Imma start working harder on my non-English laguage skills to se if we can get there faster. Hasta luego

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  6. A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with
    criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person.

    Ah, that's how that works.

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