Masturbation Policy

[4yourpleasureiam]

Maybe this one's made the rounds already, but it's one of those things that make you go hmm.

http://marlomc.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/masturbation-notice.jpg?w=500&h=373

What a bunch of sill people in college today, letting all that cum go down the drain. They should get together and bring in a couple of cum buckets. I would be willing to do my part to keep the cum from hitting the floor.

 

[pacifist91w]

When linguistics meet politics....

It's Chinese (the "written" language is just Chinese. Mandarin and Cantonese are different spoken dialects--both keyed to the one "written" language).

How many different forms of Chinese are there? Are they dialects or completely different languages? Honestly, the answer depends on who one asks. Officially, the Chinese government says there is one language with a few major dialects. Plenty of linguistic experts disagree, however; saying that there are a few distinct languages and hundreds of dialects. As China is very interested in holding onto Tibet, reacquiring Taiwan, etc., it's not surprising that they're pushing the idea that China is all one people with one culture, one language, one identity.

It's a fact that Mandarin and Cantonese are both written with the same characters. However, this is not proof that the two languages are dialects! Do we consider German and Spanish to be dialects since they have the same alphabet?

 

[Hypoxia]

It's a fact that Mandarin and Cantonese are both written with the same characters. However, this is not proof that the two languages are dialects! Do we consider German and Spanish to be dialects since they have the same alphabet?

Ideograms are not alphabetic characters. Please correct me as needed, but I've read that WRITTEN forms of various Chinese dialects/languages are mutually intelligible -- they're just not spoken the same. Can Mandarin and Cantonese speakers read each others' texts?

I've also read that alphabetic languages lacking written vowels, such as ancient Hebrew, can produce weird results when read aloud. One must learn the pronunciation (and meaning) by memorization and context. An Anglish parallel: what does SH*T mean? Is it shat, sheet, shit, shoat, shoot, shut, or what?

Back to college jack-offs: Wouldn't semen embedded in laundry clog the drains just as much (or as little) as shower-diluted jiz? A better rationale for a no-jerk policy: All that wasted protein! Children are starving in China! Be generous! Spew into containers and send them to the appropriate charity.

 

[sr71plt]

Ideograms are not alphabetic characters. Please correct me as needed, but I've read that WRITTEN forms of various Chinese dialects/languages are mutually intelligible -- they're just not spoken the same. Can Mandarin and Cantonese speakers read each others' texts?

Yes, there's one basic written Chinese language but several different Chinese spoken dialects. So, yes, Mandarin and Cantonese speakers use the same written language.

At the university, my Chinese foreign affairs professor was from Sian, and his wife, my Chinese language professor, was from Beijing. She spoke pure Mandarin; he spoke Sichuanese, which is a dialect of Mandarin but not understood by someone speaking pure Mandarin. They had to converse in English, but they could write notes to each other in Chinese.

 

[pacifist91w]

It's quite similar in written form, but...

Yes, there's one basic written Chinese language but several different Chinese spoken dialects. So, yes, Mandarin and Cantonese speakers use the same written language.

At the university, my Chinese foreign affairs professor was from Sian, and his wife, my Chinese language professor, was from Beijing. She spoke pure Mandarin; he spoke Sichuanese, which is a dialect of Mandarin but not understood by someone speaking pure Mandarin. They had to converse in English, but they could write notes to each other in Chinese.

The farther West one goes in China, the more likely that the written kanji are used a bit differently. I really like your example! Indeed, Sichuanese and Mandarin are probably 99 percent or more the same with the order and the meaning of the writing. But in Lhasa--or even in Changsha!--the writing of someone from Shanghai might be only 80 or 75 percent intelligible. And you're quite correct: the spoken word would be unintelligible altogether! My Chinese history prof was from just South of Changsha, and he often talked about the way kanji usage has changed over time and territory.

 

[robertreams]

Unless their semen contains solid parts, this is a joke.

 

[Hypoxia]

Unless their semen contains solid parts, this is a joke.

Aren't "massive eruptions of steamin' semen like hot lava" part of human biology?

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Maybe this one's made the rounds already, but it's one of those things that make you go hmm.

http://marlomc.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/masturbation-notice.jpg?w=500&h=373

Doesn't "Please masturbate in your own room" infer community showers? I'm suddenly imagining a group of naked guys and a circle jerk of sorts.