good/bad/ugly?
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it turns out it's emotive conjugation also known as Russell's conjugation!https://twitter.com/theohonohan/status/1050138612078206977 …
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Is this it? This reference Google found is in a Steven Pinker book, I'm afraid.pic.twitter.com/KGz6CrQPFz
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that's not the one i'm thinking of but it's precisely the form nice to know that if i can't dig up the original i can probably ask Steven Pinker what it was
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you got an example image?
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no, i don't think i've ever seen an image macro using it (i was using "meme" in a pre-full-degeneration sense)
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in that case my guess is Einstein's "great minds, mediocre minds" comment Hard to say since i've never seen different takes on it myself
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protoss/terran/zerg
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If you google "I am resolute" +"you are stubborn", you get a book from 1986 called "Interlingual and Intercultural Communication: Discourse and Cognition in Translation and Second Language Acquisition Studies". It makes reference to a "well-known party game".
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(Punchline is "He is pig-headed.")
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I knew it as the Irregular Verbs Game from a character in "Yes, Minister," a British comedy. He always starts with: "Oh, that's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it?" I'm innovative, You're eccentric, He's gone round the bend.
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