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pootman · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

I just spent fifteen minutes trying to get a damned é. I a long-time kde-er (and part time twm-er) and i´m currently in a default-debian-4-gnome system, trying to figure out what about it makes it play the stream from classicfm.com where just about every other distro has failed. I miss kde, but that´s neither here nor there.

I found that changing the keyboard layout to uk international ĺétś yóú aććéńt characters by typing ´ ör ¨ just before the letter but makes you double-tap ´ to type ´
An acceptable solution, but i preferred the ms way of handling this.
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pootman · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject:

Ram · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject:

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pootman · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

But when they get to school they're going to learn a whole new meaning to "Gaily they played" that has little to do with happiness or qualitative judgement...
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Ram · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

Too true, hopefully they'll have an understanding that it does not have to mean that also.
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MikeHarvey · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

I think you'll find that it's not so much a case of it not being allowed as the fact that it's been used to mean homosexual for so long that very few people would recognise its original meaning any more.

towy71 · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

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towy71 · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

it was during the 1960s that queers adopted the epithet therefore the point is not valid, the fact that 20% of the population is over 60 and witnessed that change reinforces the invalidity
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nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

I still think the crux of his point that less people would associate gay with happy is valid.
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1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:35 am Post subject:

no way, gay means crap
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towy71 · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

I typed gay into the dictionary that comes with ubuntu and got this:

pootman · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:35 am Post subject:

If my kids grow up with the gay==crap definition, it's still going to spoil the song.

Does anyone here know Rolf? Could you ask him to re-record it with happily?

Then again, if 1sf (troll) and his ilk are appropriating 'gay' for their personal use, perhaps the homosexual community will launch a retaliatory strike on 'happy'?
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Rhakios · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I've always thought 1sf (troll) seemed a bit too "happy" to be married with a kid Wink

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1slipperyfish · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

it's funny you should say that rhakios, my wife always says what miserable swine i am Confused

i think you're happy too Very Happy

i'll be john-paul and you can be craig Very Happy

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