Author Topic: Millennials have lost the art of conversation. (Read 5759 times)

Telesphorus · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2013, 10:11:03 PM »

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Not only does the big boss not appreciate paying someone who would like him in a gas oven

You are #### up for saying this as if trads want to put Jews in gas ovens.

I didn't even stick around long enough to catch that.

The obsession with filthy lucre and then this asinine use of a classic Christkiller's strawman...

Thanks for outing yourself, Shylock.

Yes, he's on the same level of the ADL, LICRA, and the SPLC.

He said Nadir's comments about using solar power reminded him of "jihadists"

That is on the level of mental illness, which accounts for his preoccupation with posters on this board.

ggreg · « **Reply #16 on:** September 08, 2013, 03:14:43 AM »

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Leaving the context of the topic as originally presented, being a good salesman &c. to one side, & thinking about it more from the standpoint of examining into some of the causes of the astonishing societal decline that has occurred over the past sixty or seventy years one can't help but notice that the intelligence of the general public has suffered a catastrophic decline. Modern people are sinking ever lower, I'm afraid that if God permitted things to go on as they're going now for another 100 years, the greater part of mankind would be reduced mentally almost to the level of the very beasts, they would become creatures like the eloi depicted in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine. Books printed for the general public 150 or 100 years ago are often unintelligible for moderns. They were never taught basic things such as the meaning of common grammatical terms. An Englishman of say 1880, who wanted to learn German would get a German grammar & learn how to compose grammatically correct sentences by memorizing things such as that any noun following the preposition wegen, because of, on account of, must be in the genitive case, wegen des regens, on account of the rain &c. Most young people now would find such a book useless, case? genitive? preposition? what are those things? They weren't taught history, geography, foreign languages, mathematics & so on, they were taught what a great man the communist negro agitator King was & how they should be ashamed of their own culture & ancestors. For the most part their minds have been entirely enervated by the wonderfully successful state schools, which are set up for this purpose. If God does not intervene the situation is utterly hopeless.

If you are going to write a rant like that, at least put the commas in the correct place and use paragraphs or it makes you look like one of the lazy and ill-educated moderns you are complaining about.

(Sales 101, page 17)

ggreg · « **Reply #17 on:** September 08, 2013, 03:33:42 AM »

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That is on the level of mental illness, which accounts for his preoccupation with posters on this board.

I did not spent all of Saturday 7th September on a 37 page rant about one poster. It was a beautiful hot day here in Northern California and I drove to Muir Woods and then along the Shoreline and Panoramic Highways to MT Tamalpais State Park.

I did come across some nuts though. A Mexican man was selling, cashews, pistachios and the very hard to find in my parts macadamia and I bought 42 bucks worth in total.

Cuthbert · « **Reply #18 on:** September 08, 2013, 04:00:22 AM »

Lo siento Greg, pero no tengo un gran saber de los ordenadores por lo tanto no puedo separar los parrafos como Vd. desea. Con referencia a las comas he aprendido todo de mis libros y trato de copiar todo lo que veo. En todo caso no tengo muchas preocupaciones, estoy un senor desocupado, no debo estar un vendedor. Sin embargo muchas gracias por su ayuda con respecto a las comas.

ggreg · « **Reply #19 on:** September 08, 2013, 04:20:38 AM »

So what is the situation in the Spanish speaking world? Are young people there becoming virtual vegetables who have lost the art of real life conversation and have mutated thumbs from the texting they do? From my travels the biggest problem with this seems to be in the Far East, then the English speaking world.

In Costa Rica, last February, I was chatting to people all the time, in English and broken Spanish. They did not appear to be always on their phones.