Apr 23

For St George’s Day

Tag: Miscellaneous — doug @ 9:24 pm

9 Responses to “For St George’s Day”

  1. Justin Anthony Knapp says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

    Vanity domain names break the Internet. It’s such a tremendous waste.

    Ugh,
    -JAK

  2. Justin Anthony Knapp says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 1:52 am

    What about Cornwall? What about Berwick-Upon-Tweed?

    -JAK

  3. 3MinuteTheologian (Justin Lewis-Anthony) says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Well, if they really want to they could apply for .kern and .but (!)

  4. doug says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Why, when Germany has .de, France .fr etc. etc. is it “vanity” for England to have .eng?

  5. Justin Anthony Knapp says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    England is a part of the UK, Germany is not a part of any other state. Why shouldn’t Indiana have one? Or Indianapolis? Or my backyard?

    -JAK

  6. doug says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    England is officially a country. The bit at the end of the url is called a country code. That’s the difference. Anyway, what would Indiana’s be? .ho

  7. Justin Anthony Knapp says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    England is a country - but that is simply a constituent of the UK, which is a (sovereign) state. It is called a country code because it refers to states in addition to dependencies, whereas England is neither. It is simply a product of the ambiguity of the word “country” that England is considered a “(home) country” of the UK. Indiana is likewise called a “state” but is not a sovereign state; simply a constituent of the USA. It would further make .uk redundant, as it would now refer to two overlapping territories.

    I don’t know if the word “ho” means the same thing in British English as it does in American English… We would probably go with .indy if anything. And now that I’ve put this on the Internet, someone will make dotindy.org. Great.

  8. doug says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Yes, ho has only one meaning that I know of. And I haven’t started being rude to you yet with your “England is not a proper country” crap. Come outside and say that!

  9. Justin Anthony Knapp says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Doug,

    Do you really want to fight an American? Do you remember 1776 or 1812?

    By the way:

    ho 2 (hō)
    n. pl. hos
    Slang A prostitute.

    [African American Vernacular English, alteration of whore.]

    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

    So, no, I don’t think we would use “.ho” even though it would make some sense.

    -JAK

    P.S. - Why are you back to the “classic” Metacatholic?

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