Respect. What does it mean to you??

[andufusthebronze]

To me, respect is waiting for someone to finish speaking. offering them some food when they are hungry and giving them a jacket when they are cold. without respect we would live in a pig sty even worse than the state of the world now :-w :-w what does respect mean to you guys??

[Anesthesia]

To me it means the group of idiots who follow George Galloway.

[andufusthebronze]

ok..... george gallaway?? whos that??

[Star.]

Weeelll Respect I think is when you make other bow down to your greatness like in those ghetto crews when they have the leaders to hand out the drugs and the whatnot.

[caligula101]

I thought that was Rezpectz...

[pompey_spud]

ok..... george gallaway?? whos that??

 

 

 

hes a british man who used to be a mp, but he quit after being accused of selling oil to Hussein. They're best mates.

[FuBai]

To me it means the group of idiots who follow George Galloway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've seen him speak twice. He's appaling. Every question anyone asked him he responded by saying "I was right about Iraq!"..."What do you think about the neuclear program..." "I was right about iraq! Neuclar Iraq right! 100,000 of pounds worth of my oil destoryed...i mean iraqi people of course." He also used stupidly elaborate and overdrawn metaphores..."Britain is a corpse, a self canablistic entity that is eating itself..." Next time you see a dead man eat himself, post a picture of it, ok?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, and that timless classic "the British Public love us! Last election we doubled our number of seats!" From a lowly 1 to a mighty 2...

[assassin_696]

To me, respect is waiting for someone to finish speaking. offering them some food when they are hungry and giving them a jacket when they are cold. without respect we would live in a pig sty even worse than the state of the world now :-w :-w what does respect mean to you guys??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What you described sounds like general good manners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respect to me is summed up in the phrase, "I may not like you, but I still respect you"

[andufusthebronze]

thank you assasin for taking it seriously

[gunker1991]

Respect is not stealing a mans donkey because it looks better then ur own.

[rushrock]

Respect is realizing each others feelings and acting in a way that's best for yourself and the people around you. Respect is essential for life.

[warri0r45]

to me, respect is hearing others opinions, not critiscising them for having an opinion, and showing how much you value them on a fundamental level (as a human being)... and i dont mean love, although, in a relationship, respecting your partner involves loving them.

[issy2]

'Respect is earnt, but basic civilary is a must.'

[Anesthesia]

'Respect is earnt, but basic civilary is a must.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chivalry?

[issy2]

 

'Respect is earnt, but basic civilary is a must.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chivalry?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's being civil, basic manners, even if you don't respect someone, it's no reason to treat them like dirt. (Unless you have a very good reason)

[Anesthesia]

I know what chivalry is. I was correcting where you had said 'civilary'.

[issy2]

I know what chivalry is. I was correcting where you had said 'civilary'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, you were clearly wrong, as I was talking about being 'civil' rather than 'chivilarous.'

[Anesthesia]

There is no such word as civilary. I assumed you mean chivalry since that would make sense in that context, and you explained what being chivalrous means afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One can be civil, one can be chivalrous, but there are no such words as civilary or chivilarous.

[FuBai]

There is no such word as civilary. I assumed you mean chivalry since that would make sense in that context, and you explained what being chivalrous means afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One can be civil, one can be chivalrous, but there are no such words as civilary or chivilarous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure it is of the least relevance as to how she spelt the word. Her meaning was clear. It is also possible to synthesize words that don't exist to match what you wish to express - Jaberwocky is a rather good example where the text benefits from lack the obfsucation that QE may engender. Many other writers have created words through either compliations of other words, or by onomatopeia. Where this falls down is that there is infact a word that expresses what she meant, infact that are arguably several - chivalrous being one, citizenship another perhaps. I would personaly have gone for civility. Yet this seems largley immaterial, as we were able to ascertain, without too much difficulty, exactly to what she refered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or perhaps I'm just baised because I'm dyslexic and dyspraxic :)

[Anesthesia]

It is obviously not clear what she meant, since she's now saying she didn't mean chivalry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that given the fact she is 12, it is more likely she was mistaken - rather than trying to create a new word for something one doesn't exist for.

[issy2]

it is more likely she was mistaken - rather than trying to create a new word for something one doesn't exist for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, I asked my dad for a word referring to 'civil' in the correct context, he suggested 'civilary' and several others. Does it really matter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

since she's now saying she didn't mean chivalry.

 

 

 

I never said I meant chivarly. I was referring to being civil the whole time...

[FuBai]

 

it is more likely she was mistaken - rather than trying to create a new word for something one doesn't exist for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, I asked my dad for a word referring to 'civil' in the correct context, he suggested 'civilary' and several others. Does it really matter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

since she's now saying she didn't mean chivalry.

 

 

 

I never said I meant chivarly. I was referring to being civil the whole time...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe your dad said "civility" and you missheard him as "civilary"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And to anasthesia, she has not retracted the general meaning or nature of her statment, all she has said that she did not mean to use the word "chivilary" as you suggested, but, the word she did, in fact, implement, be it extant or not. So, whilst denying the idea that she meant chivilary, she has not denyed the underlying meaning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thus it is perfectly clear that the meaning is not what is under question, but, rather, the superficial term used to connote said meaning. So, whilst we are all arguing over what ammounts to little more than semantics, we have ignored her actual intention in posting in the first place, which is still apparent to all, despite this continued debate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I, personaly, disagree with what she originaly said, in that respect is, in my view, inherent in genuine civility and even, in a different manner, in that civility which is not, in the least, earnest.

[One Too Far]

to me respect is a dumb thing thought of by school teachers and bosses to get people to lisent to them as respect should not be needed if they themself had for one time the decentcy to lisent to the ones they force to have respect for them as doing so is in respectful in its own way

[BlueLancer]

to me respect is a dumb thing thought of by school teachers and bosses to get people to lisent to them as respect should not be needed if they themself had for one time the decentcy to lisent to the ones they force to have respect for them as doing so is in respectful in its own way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So respect didn't exist back hundreds of years ago when most people didn't even have a 'teacher' or a 'boss' in the sense we think of it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respect is a simple concept of life. You can respect a teacher without submitting to his will. You can respect a boss, well, this is a different issue though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't like doing what he tells you, start a business of your own or do something else for money. After all, a boss is simply someone who didn't want to work for somebody else but created his own company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if they themself had for one time the decentcy to lisent to the ones they force to have respect for them as doing so is in respectful in its own way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching *was* like that, just that it was 2000 years ago in ancient greece and the guys were philosophers. Teachers today don't have that kind of time or necessarily intellectual/moral/ethical insight, and even if they're wrong, students can't usually point this out without fearing punishment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's wrong, but just suck it up until you get a degree and can work somewhere.

[Viktorkrum77]

I'm surprised no one quoted the Respect song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respect to me is to not necessarily agree with someone, but to act polite and (what's another word for respect, um) to understand where they're coming from.