Some of you may know me by the simple initials of TK from another board entirely. For the rest of the denizens here, I bid you greetings! I will enjoy engaging you with my conservative/classical liberal viewpoints. Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Merry Festivus Eh, Happy Holidays!
Thank God, after eight years of Obama's eight Hawaiian, Kawanzaa vacations and his eight official Kawanzaa greetings from the White House... Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is. What the **** is a "Kinara" ???
Nope. Can't say that I do. From the avatar and moniker I am guessing just another high school kid searching for an identity.
What in the **** is a Kinara ? Was there a Kinara inside the Obama White House ? I noticed that Obama capitalized the word Kinara so it has to be a proper noun.
I started out as pro-McCain but when he proved to be inept at macroecon that disqualified him. And Romney was mostly just another rich guy who wanted more tax cuts for his rich supporters. So BHO became a necessary evil as it were. He's gone now so we can let the dead bury the dead.
Looks like you won't be answered, so I decided to google, lol. Kinara - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinara The kinara is the candle holder used in Kwanzaa celebrations in the United States. During the week-long celebration of Kwanzaa, seven candles are placed in the kinara - three red on the left, three green on the right, and a single black candle in the center. The wordkinara is a Swahili word that means candle holder.
Thank you Arkie for googling for me. If I were have googled to find the answer, it would be weeks of advertising of Kinaras popping up on my computer screen. But that doesn't explain why Obama treated a kinara as being a proper noun. Guns (guns) are not a proper noun and neither are cars. Maybe it's an Obama thing ? Maybe something to do with ebonics ? I'm not politically correct so I don't recognize ebonics as a real language so I don't treat the word as a proper noun. Obama calls Navy corpsman, Navy corpse man. U.S. Marines are always used as a proper noun while army and navy are not. But in respect to American soldiers and sailors I will treat Army and Navy as a proper noun. But not soldier or sailor but all American Marines are a proper noun.
My policy has always been to capitalize Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Coast Guardsman -- in return for them capitalizing Marine. This all reminds me of a song -- I'm sure you too @APACHERAT learned this in boot camp: "The prettiest girl I ever saw Was sipping bourbon Thru a straw, I walked right up I sat right down, I ordered up Another round, I put my hand Upon her toe, She said, "Marine, That's much too low!" Etc ... .
The last thing I am up on is Negro American mythology. The ancient Kush in what is now Ethiopia believed they were the oldest peoples on the Earth. They were a tall people, taller than the Egyptians. Even taller than the Persians. They defeated both in battles and lived their lives free like the Greeks did as well. African Negro mythology is somewhat more interesting.
It was someone on this forum who always treated the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force as proper nouns in respect and I soon followed suit. I'll give it some thought about using American soldiers, sailors, airmen and coasties as proper nouns.
