This site has every episode. But it seems to intentionally hide itself. 
 
http://southparkfanblog.blogspot.com/

A great moment in intellectual history.

Have your sciencblogs stats gone up since Ms Rafaeli joined?

Sure Agnostic. A Latin active verb is better than no active verb, but anglo-saxon ones have greater impact, as Latin verbs always come off as a little passive or abstract. A quick googled comparison: 
 
skewer v. perforate 
 
swerve v. deviate 
 
grind v. pulverize 
 
Only pulverize touches the bones.  
 
The verb 'to google' in it's active form 'I googled' is an interesting example of nerd culture making things simpler.

Wait. Replace 'earthiness of Germany theory' with the Earth-German Guess. Sounds earthier.

My source for the earthiness of German theory? Friends. These guys. Oh, and this guy.

Interesting point j mct. LOTR is very popular in Germany, and German is a very earthy language. I'm not sure how popular it is in the romance languages.

Question: Why do nerds like Lord of the Rings?  
 
Whence this strange combination of medieval mysticism and all things science? Nerd culture is obsessed with cold, long words, as Razib says. The more abstract the better. But they also love wizards and magic.  
 
On first reading LOTR the nerd feels a rush of cool air on his face, because he has never read such clarity before. He grasps all the words, instantly - they don't require the usual mental adjustment/translation. All the words are warm and strong: they touch him in a deep place. Here is Tolkien's great climax. 
 
The earth groaned and quaked. The Towers of the Teeth swayed, tottered and fell down; the mighty rampart crumbled; the Black Gate was hurled in ruin; and from far away, now dim, now growing, now mounting to the clouds, there came a drumming rumble, a roar, a long echoing roll of ruinous noise. 
 
What energy, active verb after active verb after active verb: groaned, quaked, swayed, tottered, crumbled, hurled, growing, mounting, drumming...The nerd falls back in his seat, defeated, dazzled.  
 
But he doesn't now why this has affected him so much, so he keeps to his Latin. Zinsser can tell the nerd why this keeps drawing him back.

Yes I didn't edit my own edit, I know. I responded to that critique on my own thread. Ideally, I should have altered it. I translated it out loud and wrote down what I said.  
 
re style: i meant guys who try to find their own personal style without learning the basics.

Bbartlog 
 
My translation is basic, not crap.  
 
Razib himself said he doesn?t care about style, and only wants to get his message out there. Quote: One thing I do want to add is that it's not all part of my "style? His writing process just feels natural to him. I don?t care about style either. And Zinsser doesn?t like it. He criticises guys who say to him ?I want to find my style, what?s my style etc? And I don?t see why a short post telling us about a book review and an upcoming book review by himself should have a ?style?. Half Sigma writes in a simple manner too. And the most boisterous and energetic of all ? Tom Wolfe. Style comes after mastering the basics. You can?t become a stylistically brilliant violinist without first learning the rules. 
 
And about Ecclesiastices. The purpose of that wasn?t to show brevity, but to compare word-choice, word-length, and word-impact.

I'd recommend reading something. I got an instant return, just by avoiding pointless adverbs and adjectives and dodging a pointless setup. eg, Birch Barlows opening to the multiple intelligence theories post:  
 
I have come to believe that it is crucial to realize that there are other factors in intelligence besides g and its subfactors  
 
The bolded part should be deleted. Firstly, it's terrible English, but secondly: it comes off as a qualifier. Begin with authority!  
 
OK, here's what's wrong with the modern English Bible translation. 
 
1. It looks terrible, the reader runs a mile.  
 
2. There is no humanity, no people involved. Who the hell is speaking? The old version has people: I returned under the sun.  
 
3. There are no active verbs. Active verbs are the most powerful tool in the English language. I returned under the sun and saw!! Two active verbs, returned and saw, draw the reader in with their warmth and authority.  
 
4. The words are too long. Compare syllables. Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena... uggg. length. Even worse, these long words have to be digested all at once: only one comma in the whole sentence! This is the great problem with latin words - they latch onto each other like parasites, one feeding off the other. They can?t stand alone and confident like Anglo-Saxon words, they need lots of friends backing them up. This is because they are so vague to begin with, they need more words to make them clearer. So you put in ?activities?, but then the reader mightn't get that you're talking about a contest, so 'competitive' must be added on. 'Capacity' doesn?t work by itself, so ?innate? must be appended. It can't just be 'talent'.  
 
5. The words in the old version are good, strong and warm anglo-saxon: battle, riches, bread, race, sun. You can grasp these things, they don't embody a vague concept like latin derived words (Consideration, phenomena) Say the word battle out loud, right now. Doesn't it touch your bones? Every word in the modern version is a vague concept. Only two in the old version are: time and chance, at the end. And both are one syllable!  
 
Now. Razib's readers have the IQ to digest most of what he says. That's a great thing. Razib's stomach lets him digest hotter spices than most. Does that mean he should with every meal? Why make things tough?

"but he has a point about concision not being your strong suit." 
 
I always figured this was intentional, the lack of concision being a sort of de facto filter on impulsive tard commenters.

From Matt's link to Orwell, quoting one of the greatest sentences in the English canon: 
 
Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes: 
 
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 
 
Here it is in modern English: 
 
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. 
 
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When you understand why the first paragraph works and the second doesn't, you're on the right road.

though Ross & Reihan might claim other sources for the derivation of particular observations or datum 
 
or 
 
'The writers could claim they got some facts elsewhere'. 
 
I propose a war on latin derived words! especially ones ending in 'ion'. Join me and we'll fly the flag of warm and cuddly anglo-saxon nouns and active verbs. It will be a grim fight, not a difficult enterprise.  
 
Our weapon.

Kinowear has some excellent and well-researched articles on male fashion. 
 
This virtual stock exchange is good fun too, maybe read this book first.

Another important point - Woody Allen said eighty percent of success is showing up, and this is true for guys scoring women. Badboys might be techniqueless and poor as shit, but the fact that their confidence pushes them into more interactions with women than average allows them more success than average. Most guys who see a girl they like don't bother to approach, in fact approaching a girl in the daytime is beyond the reality of most guys. This is important because of an astonishing university study - 56% of women agreed to a date when randomly approached by a stranger saying 'would you go out with me tonight'!!!!! Badboys might be dicks who don't care what people think, but that same fact makes them approach that cutie and get what they want.

A note to males: learning game can let you easily outdo badboys.  
 
From what I've read and seen bad boy naturals success with women plateau's after a certain point, mainly because they don't know what they're doing, so they cannot refine or improve upon it, it's just 'natural' after all. Many things they're doing might even be counter-productive, but their natural confidence and ballsyness makes up for it, and certainly lets them beat the average guy at the margin. Bad boy James Bond regularly buys girls drinks, for example. Onlookers have concluded 'buying a girl a drink makes her like me'. But this is not the case, as for most men it telegraphs interest and neediness too quickly, and automatically raises her value relative to yours. Bond is succeeding IN SPITE of this act. So it might be with a good many badboy activities. Just remember - anyone confidently outside the mainstream will do better with women.

thinking about it further, french people do have a slavic air to them. beautiful, stylish women without latherings of oompa-loompa makeup, men are dicks etc. East europe in a nutshell! i jest, i jest.

remember a substantial proportion of the native white french are descended from southern and eastern europeans who settled in france in the 19th century when the demographic transition was in high gear 
 
what? i don't remember this! first I've heard actually but i'm intrigued. how big is substantial?