Merriam Webster Dictionary changed the definition of 'Assault rifle' to match Anti gunner rhetoric!

[tank_monkey]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/9ef26ba...r-changes.html

This is an outrage.

They define an assault rifle in the traditional correct terminology, a select fire rifle that fires an intermediate cartridge and takes a detachable box or drum magazine. but then added THIS....

a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire

WTF?

So if I paint my car to 'look like a race car' .... it magically BECOMES a race car.......

[alismith]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/9ef26ba...r-changes.html

This is an outrage.

They define an assault rifle in the traditional correct terminology, a select fire rifle that fires an intermediate cartridge and takes a detachable box or drum magazine. but then added THIS....



WTF?

So if I paint my car to 'look like a race car' .... it magically BECOMES a race car.......

To a liberal/Dimocrat/Communist's mind, yes. All it has to do is "look" like a race car to be a race car.

[rci2950]

WTF?

So if I paint my car to 'look like a race car' .... it magically BECOMES a race car.......

No because cars aren't designed to kill people

[Full Otto]

Well if you come across someone wanting to use that definition you can maybe use this as a counter

Word created by The Simpsons added to US dictionary
http://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43298229
"Embiggen" has been added to a US dictionary - a word first heard on The Simpsons in 1996.
Merriam-Webster included the word, which has been popularised partly because of the comic Ms Marvel, among 850 new words and definitions.

As far as the race car I think it requires an STP sticker

[l921428x]

Or a 3

[Krupski]

Well check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_English

"AAVE"??? As if it's something real?

Excerpt:

African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular (AAVE) is the native variety of the vast majority of working- and middle-class African Americans, particularly in urban areas,[1] with its own unique accent, grammar, and vocabulary features.
Typical features of the grammar include a "zero" copula (e.g., she my sister instead of she's my sister), simplification of the possessive form (e.g., my momma friend instead of my mom's friend), and complexification of verb aspects and tenses beyond those of other English dialects (e.g., constructions like I'm a-run, I be running, I been runnin, I done ran, etc.). Common features of the phonology include non-rhoticity (dropping the r sound at the end of syllables), the metathetic use of aks instead of ask, simplification of diphthongs (e.g., eye typically sounds like ah), a raising chain shift of the front vowels, and a wider range of intonation or "melody" patterns than most General American accents. AAVE is used by middle-class African Americans in casual, intimate, and informal settings as one end of a sociocultural language continuum, and AAVE shows some slight variations by region or city.

Older African-American English
Older or earlier African-American English refers to a set of many heterogeneous varieties studied and reconstructed by linguists as theoretically spoken by the first African Americans and African slaves in the United States. Of primary interest is the direct theoretical predecessor to AAVE. Mainly four types of sources have been used for the historical reconstruction of older AAVE: written interviews, ex-slave audio recordings, the modern diaspora dialects of isolated black communities, and letters written by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African Americans.[10] The use of the zero copula (the absence of is or are, as in she gonna leave), nonstandard plural forms (the three man, mans, or even mens) and multiple negatives (as in no one didn't leave me nothing) were occasional or common variants in these earlier dialects, and the latter item even the preferred variant in certain grammatical contexts.[11] Other nonstandard grammatical constructions associated with AAVE are documented in older dialects too; however, many of them are not, evidently being recent innovations of twentieth-century urban AAVE.[12]

Sorry, but I call this "uneducated" and "lousy grammar" and "talkin' nigger".

You will notice that well to do, respected, educated "blacks" would not be caught dead speaking like this (except for 0bama... who insulted certain audiences by thinking "he be speakin' dey language".

America. Insanity is the new normal.

[Krupski]

No because cars aren't designed to kill people

...but yet, they do. And in FAR greater numbers than even those scary rifles.

[Krupski]

To a liberal/Dimocrat/Communist's mind, yes. All it has to do is "look" like a race car to be a race car.

Well I do know that putting air shocks or stiffer springs on a car to raise the rear end makes the car go faster as it's always going downhill.