So rather than question the grounds for the prescription, we turn to the usage pundits, just as we once turned to our schoolteachers in search of guidance and certitude . Many of us, of course, have fixed ideas about proper language use.
I know the people who got into it to-- I get to be backstage with them-- who talk a certain different-- just a different way have such a certitude how good they are and how deserved they are of making books and shit. If it didn't happen, I was cool.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. And that certitude can be very appealing if it harks back to a golden age.
Ubermensch or the--oh, okay. All right. Fair enough. But you can read the book and kind of like get a good, like, jumping start on that. But no, you're right about the--it's this sort of moral certitude as well and, like, you know. And at some point in the first season, they're kind of talking about it that, you know, this group of people, it was great
about video games, because most of these narratives around the future of games are very self-confident. They have a sort of certitude about what is going to happen. They present it as something very clear to them.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. Any idea that bases itself on the certitude of a collective identity that is ethnic, or religious, or racial ends up in a lot of blood and tears.
But for the rest of the world, which is not Google, a lot of people are limited by their fears. They're limited by their certitudes . They're limited by their convictions that they cannot do better than what they already do.
It certainly doesn't look familiar to me. But I don't want to say, with certitude , to something that I don't know to the certain truth. Well, have you ever taken a picture of yourself like this?
Some are not found anywhere at all. You can sort of predict, with some degree of certitude , about where those birds may appear. And it's actually easier to spot them with help.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. is that any ideology-- not just religion, which revolves around far too much certitude , whether it is Nazi
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. You're getting an absolutist, fundamentalist point of view that harks back to a pristine golden age, that harks back to certitude and truth, that harks back to clearly
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. And during these moments, when this happens, then people look for certain certitudes in life.