Posted on 03/17/2015 7:37:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“There is wiggle room for non-formal communications, but if you can’t be understood, your point doesn’t matter.”
That’s basically the point. Precise communication is essential to any sort of civilization. If I don’t really understand what “Joe” is saying, how can I meaningfully respond.
-PJ
Communication is the first stage of teaching. Conservatives aren't communicating, regardless of who conservative think is to blame.
/johnny
Its clear you could care less.
The line between formal and informal communications is being slowly redefined by the recent emergence of e-mail and texting.
New mindset for everyone. Adapt and overcome. I'm trying. ;)
/johnny
“Irregardless” is also in the dictionary. That doesn’t mean it’s a word, and it doesn’t mean you should use it.
[Irregardless of this writers opinion, unproper usage literally makes my head explode]
I think you hit four beauties.
And beauty spelled phonetically is: B U T.
France has a 'language police'. French used to be the international language. No more. Dialects of English have taken over for a reason.
I know that if what I'm doing isn't working, it is incumbent on me to not automatically assume the other guy is wrong and needs to majikally get fixed before what I doing works.
That's what the GOP-E is trying to do, and it ain't working.
/johnny
Aahh, almost as important to a composition as was your "Funk & Wagnall's." Those, indeed, were the days!
American Psychological Association.:)
Chapter 3 of the sixth edition is fun.
New heading structure established to simplify retrieval and ease reading comprehension.
Fully revised guidelines on reducing bias in language.
New section on historical and interpretive inaccuracies in language.
Use of “subjects” vs. “participants” revisited, with “subjects” fully accepted for use.
Gender—guidelines for avoiding bias updated (e.g., question the use of such constructions as “opposite” sex).
Definitions and preferred usage for terms “transsexual” and “transgender” updated.
Race—avoid language that reifies race, avoid use of “minority” for “non-White”.
New sentence added for those of Middle Eastern descent.
That is the $$ takeaway from the article.
It assumes there is ONE english language, and there never has been. It has always been a collection of dialects, and there can be no ONE rule. Sometimes, like after printing, things get much more aligned, but I can think of over 50 different spellings for 'church' or 'kirk' or any variation right before printing became common.
/johnny
A standard vocabulary is vital to communication.
You shouldn't have to say "dooya know whut I mean" after every 3 or 4 words.
Ditto for "Whutyoosay"?
You and I aren't going to solve it. ;)
Best we can do is figure out if we are communicating effectively, and adjust as required.
Standard American English worked fairly well for decades, but times are changing. and this dialect won't live forever. Any more than Chaucer's did.
/johnny
And if riting used the rules as rithmetic, you would be correct
But today it is relevant because that is how they are being taught to write in college.
If Bacon is correct about writing makes an exact man and these are the standards used it is no wonder that what is coming out of the young skulls full of mush is gobbledygook.
You and I aren't going to solve it. ;)
True. Sad isn't it?
Nope. It makes me glad that I'm not a language rigidist that thinks there is only ONE dialect of English, and can be flexible enough to communicate at the level of the intended audience.
Beats wringing hands and not doing anything meaningful.
RR was much better spoken (in my opinion) privately than he was publically, but he was known as the great communicator. Conservatives have to get back to that, and teach the ignorant.
/johnny
"Ther nas no man no wher so vertuous" ("There never was no man nowhere so virtuous"). - Chaucer
... and if Chaucer ain't English, I don't know what!
Personally, I think most of the editors were killed and eaten in the tragic editorial room massacre of the '80s. ;)
/johnny
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