Quotes and Quizzes

[elfs]

Quote #1: "It's interesting, however appalling, to see what's next on the agenda of The Sodomy Lobby: Marriage licenses for sadomasochists."

Paging Dr. Cluebat, paging Dr. Cluebat, Les Kinsolving needs a clue stat. Mr. Kinsolving is foaming at the mouth over the "advocacy of legal marriage of sadists with masochists." Color me stunned.

Quote #2: "The D.A.R. [Daughters of the American Revolution]. . . is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended from the seditious American colonists of 1776, and the other more ardent half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely the principles for which such ancestors struggled.

Quote #3: "What amazes me is that so-called 'people of faith' like to set themselves up as having a slightly finer sensibility than you or me but in fact they are completely intellectually irresponsible. They used to come up with very bad arguments for their faiths but at least they felt that there was something they should provide. Now mere wilfulness has triumphed."

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The Guardian Unlimited asks: How Good a Speller are You?

I scored 19 out of 23.

Comments

[rapier.livejournal.com]

*gasp* 17 out of 23. Excuse me while I tear the dictionary apart and cut my eyes to ribbons with razor-thin pages. And then let me see if I can spell self-flagellation correctly.

[patcat.livejournal.com]

22 out of 23. (For the record, I got the first one wrong.)

[rapier.livejournal.com]

I chalk up the ones I got wrong to funky British spelling. And the one I accidentally skipped. Can you guess how long it took me to manually spell check this reply?

[xlana.livejournal.com]

18 of 23. And the ones that were incorrect were the ones I always have to spell-check anyway... "recommend? reccomend? recomend? ah, F7."

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

21 of 23.

My great-aunt says my sister and I are apparently qualified for the D.A.R. I've toyed with investigating what is necessary to join, just so I can be horribly embarrassing to them. It is sometimes a tempting thought.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

22 out of 23; I missed 'minuscule', although dictionaries state that 'miniscule', which I'd picked, is an acceptable variation.

[quaryn-dk.livejournal.com]

I did 20 out of 23, which I was appalled by. I could only blame it on two things: 1) I can't always remember British spellings, and 2) it was 2am when I did the quiz (yup, having insomnia again).

Yeah, I'm the sort of person who's disappointed about only getting 87% on a spelling test. Feel free to throw spitballs at the nerd now. ;) I should qualify by saying that, back in my glory days (how sad that these were my glory days), I was two-time county spelling champion, and came in 3rd at state the second time. So, yeah, 87% is pretty disappointing.

I'm also kind of tickled that my innate talent for spelling seems to be carrying over into my foreign language learning. It would appear that I'm the best speller in my Danish class as well.

[(Anonymous)]

19 of 23 also

This quiz is hard!

Spelling and Article #3

[(Anonymous)]

I also scored 19 of 23 (disappointingly).

In regards to the 3rd article, I agree with his sentiments about the wilfulness of modern faith (at least when it comes to the more outspoken religiots), but I disagree with some of his other comments. In particular, I think he goes too far in his discussion of the motive fallacy; I feel that in the modern political and scientific climate it is very important that we know who funds a particular scientist's work. While Science is an ideal, all too many scientists have proven to be all too human.

Yes, dismissing a particular scientist's views out-of-hand because "it pays [for] them to say that" may not be the best method of making judgments on scientific validity, it is often the only method available to the populace at large.

-Malthus

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I am pissed to have gotten only 22 out of 23 (I spelled #19 wrong, and it took me forever to figure that out when I went back through to find the error).