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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8529084" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yes, that's a very good point.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is truly amazing. Why don't you go around, in say any English-speaking country, and start calling non-white people "exotic" to their face, and see how long it is before you have people frowning at you and turning away in disgust, or worse, get throw out of a bar/restaurant, or even actually punched? Because it's not going to be very long. Bloody hell mate. Talk about naive.</p><p></p><p></p><p>An abjectly false claim, I'm afraid. People will have completely different understanding from each other. Primitive has been misused to the point that one person will be picturing actual cavemen, and another will be picturing the middle ages or mesoamerica in the 1500s, and so on.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is also amazing when you've just declared "exotic" is compliment, because it really makes one wonder what you would consider proof, short of the aforementioned being ejected from a restaurant or the like. Even then it seems like you'd just blame "a minority pushing their views".</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lyxen seems to be French or a primary French speaker, and in France, for centuries, they've had a patriarchal and protective attitude to their language, and literally have an organisation devoted to preventing French from changing. Even the government has got in on trying to force people to not use certain novel words (especially loan-words) and so on. So I suspect this influences his rather eccentric perspective on English.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8529084, member: 18"] Yes, that's a very good point. This is truly amazing. Why don't you go around, in say any English-speaking country, and start calling non-white people "exotic" to their face, and see how long it is before you have people frowning at you and turning away in disgust, or worse, get throw out of a bar/restaurant, or even actually punched? Because it's not going to be very long. Bloody hell mate. Talk about naive. An abjectly false claim, I'm afraid. People will have completely different understanding from each other. Primitive has been misused to the point that one person will be picturing actual cavemen, and another will be picturing the middle ages or mesoamerica in the 1500s, and so on. This is also amazing when you've just declared "exotic" is compliment, because it really makes one wonder what you would consider proof, short of the aforementioned being ejected from a restaurant or the like. Even then it seems like you'd just blame "a minority pushing their views". Lyxen seems to be French or a primary French speaker, and in France, for centuries, they've had a patriarchal and protective attitude to their language, and literally have an organisation devoted to preventing French from changing. Even the government has got in on trying to force people to not use certain novel words (especially loan-words) and so on. So I suspect this influences his rather eccentric perspective on English. [/QUOTE]
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