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A truly righteous man should rail his homeboys (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/BrandNewSentence@lemmy.today
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[–] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Well, that's A solution to that particular paradox. If those are someone's beliefs, well they'd be a hypocrite if they didn't have sex with their bros. Or, I guess wives being "impure" after marriage would technically also work. Somehow I doubt they would like that one either. Oh right! Can't forget that the Ben Franklin strategy also solves this paradox.

I'm still just going to stick with my prefered solution of not judging people based on arbitrary sexual standards. Bam, no paradox! It's a strategy I recommend for everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Entirely unrelated, but I wish English hadn't abandoned that style of capitalization for emphasis. When you read Franklin's letter, you can genuinely get a feel for his style of speech through his use of capitalization. Italics and bold just don't carry the same message for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's not for emphasis. Nouns were commonly capitalized in English like they still are in German.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    While they were much more likely to capitalize nouns, and it did have German influence, it was never all nouns as in German, and it was absolutely used for emphasis during that period of time. If you read through letters by Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson, or many of the prolific writers of the Day, you'll see there are many nouns left uncapitalized, while seemingly important nouns (liberty, right, et cetera) are capitalized.

    Here's a stack exchange comment thread that talks about it

    I'd find you a better source but I'm on a road trip right now.

    Capitalization in English is a super fascinating rabbit hole to fall down. Grammar in general, really. It was a lot more free form before the mid 1800s, and that allowed an author's voice to be a lot more personalized than in the modern day. Today, an author's voice is mainly due to their vocabulary choices, and to a lesser extent their punctuation, but during that time author's could choose different spellings, capitalizations, and other small idiosyncrasies that really let you get a feel for what their speech was like.

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