[Brother Temperance]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Disagreeing is not derailing.

No, it's TREASON.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

No, it's TREASON.

How so?

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

How so?

Because it is.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Because it is.

That's not an acceptable answer.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

That's not an acceptable answer.

Yes, isn't it?

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Yes, isn't it?

WTF does that mean?

[Nobar King]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

WTF does that mean?

Interesting that you should ask. Let's take a look at this often overlooked, yet powerful word:

That:
The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes:

• to introduce a restrictive clause
• as a demonstrative pronoun
• as a complementizer.

Phrases

"That" can be used five times in a row, in a grammatically correct sentence:

He said that that 'that' that that man used was wrong.[1]

Or six times:

He said that that 'that' that that 'that' modified was wrong.

Or seven times:[2]

Did the editor know that, that that 'that' that that 'that' followed was redundant?[3]

The same thing is possible with the German equivalent of that 'das', with the exception that 'das' is sometimes written 'dass' (or older 'daß') to make it easier to read, though it is pronounced the same way.
The pattern can be repeated indefinitely and retain its grammatical correctness:

Did you know that that 'that' that that 'that' that that 'that' that that 'that'...

Other patterns of grammatically correct multiple consecutive occurrences are also possible. For example:

That that is is that that that that is not is not.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Interesting that you should ask. Let's take a look at this often overlooked, yet powerful word:

Since I did not put the word i quotation marks in my post, I was obviously not asking for a definition of or an etymological treatise on the word "that."

I was asking what BJ's response of "Yes, isn't it?" meant, since it made no sense.

[Nobar King]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Yes, it did.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Since I did not put the word i quotation marks in my post, I was obviously not asking for a definition of or an etymological treatise on the word "that."

I was asking what BJ's response of "Yes, isn't it?" meant, since it made no sense.

Read the whole conversation and look at your own comments dumbass.

Three word replies are annoying, aren't they?

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Read the whole conversation and look at your own comments dumbass.

Three word replies are annoying, aren't they?

Not if they actually make sense.

[Nobar King]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Not if they actually make sense.

Yes, they are.

[Father Thomas Martin]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

Please...Let's get back to our talk about the Great Emancipator!

[Stridex Puss Bucket]

You know he was going to send all slaves back to Africa

[The_Arizonan]

Re: Abraham Lincoln: America's Worst President Ever

You know he was going to send all slaves back to Africa

Yes, that's true. Some people say he wanted to create a lily-white United States, hence why he opposed extending slavery into the western territories.

Northerners opposing the extension of slavery help kept the blacks in the south.