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I just got into a linguistic political argument with a guy on OKCupid. This is ridiculous and now I'm fucking seething with anger because his arguments are so asinine and kind of summed up with "wah wah my linguistic privilege was insulted by this one tiny thing at one point in my life" and I'm like ohmygod please just shut up.

I go to Okcupid for random chatter with potential dates and maybe some random flirtation if I like somebody enough. Not this shit.

...linguistic privilege?

In short: due to a historical hang-up/reasoning, Finnish-speaking Finns are forced to learn a bit of Swedish during their school education. Vice versa, Swedish-speaking Finns (who are about 6% of the overall population) have to learn Finnish. Many Finns, who are the majority, find this very unfair and are very local about it, despite the fact that as the majority, they rarely, if ever, face the problems that Swedish-speakers may find when dealing with issues (like not getting service at government institutions in their first language).

Now, this guy was complaining how difficult Swedish was for him because he hated learning it. Boo-fucking-hoo. Passing Maths and Chemistry was always really difficult for me because I hated learning both but I sucked it up and got passing grades eventually. I can see many reasons why people find it unfair, but when some people basically just oppose it because it presented a minor challenge, I don't know, I get pretty irritated. I gained more from learning Swedish than I lost by having to learn it. (Note: it's not like you have to become fluent in it, you can pass with very minimal Swedish skills.)

"Privilege" is a little weird way of saying it, but yeah, it's not like Finnish speakers face language-related problems in their daily lives, whereas speakers of other languages might when living in Finland.

That's... weird? He's complaining how he had to take classes to learn a second (or third?) language in school?
Practically every developed nation makes you learn a second language in school. Even if you somehow don't do that in high school most colleges in the U.S. require you take a foreign language.

Sometimes in wank threads people start arguing about random other wank.

I love subverted wank!

AYRT here - he's complaining he had to study something he didn't want to, something he didn't have any motivation to study and thus found hard to study, and something that ostensibly he didn't think would be useful to him (or as useful as learning another language, like Mandarin or Spanish).

I'm not a huge proponent of mandatory Swedish lessons in Finnish schools but I just hate people who think it's the end of the world that they had to learn something they didn't want to learn, instead of looking on the bright sides, like the fact Swedish is pretty easy to learn, and knowing it gives you employment opportunities in Sweden and elsewhere in Scandinavia. He was even annoyed the fact that our bilingual country occasionally has bilingual road signs. It's just like ..stop complaining. There are so many bigger issues.

Needless to say, I stopped responding to him after a while. Even if he had been cute, I really dislike people who have such a big chip on their shoulder about this issue.

Pretty much all of the wank in the WTNV fandom. I... Don't know what I was expecting. But it wasn't that.

Dude. It's a spooky radio show about a small town full of endearingly quirky characters. How are y'all so pissy all the time? JUST LISTEN AND LET IT BRING YOU JOY. :D

Declawing cat wank on an anime forum.

Ack. Not only weird, but that could get *so* nasty.

Yep. I try to stay far away from any of that.

ask blog drama, it's ridiculous. You can't interact with one ask blog if you want to interact with another because they fought once and if you do an event for one side you can't do it for the other, even if you weren't even active at the time of the event

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