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To: JRandomFreeper
All you're doing is defining deviancy down. Educated people are more effective at communicating with people who matter, and every ignoramus has an excuse for his lack of discipline.

Hand me a resume with a grammatical or spelling error and you'll be looking for a job with somebody else. I'm not interested in the rationalizations of stupid people who refuse to improve themselves, and I'm not impressed with educated people who excuse them; in fact they're worse because they have the training and capacity to know better.

The rest of your thesis is laughably preposterous. English became the lingua franca of the modern world because of the economic and cultural dominance of the Anglosphere in general and the ascendancy of the United States of America in particular, not because the French have a language committee.

Attempts to equate the ineffectiveness of the GOP-e with the general collapse of academic standards is a non sequitur so thoroughly divorced from reality that it requires no further examination.

85 posted on 03/17/2015 9:34:01 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Hail Hydra!)
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To: FredZarguna
Deviency with what? A single model of the English language? Who decides? You can't teach unless you communicate. Communicate first. Teach proper american english next.

Nothing is being defined down.

Rigid thinking about the language (which is many languages, always changing) isn't working for conservatives.

Again... which version of English are you pushing for?

Same thing as the GOP-E. They don't want to realize they can't automatically blame someone else because what they are doing doesn't work.

They are rigid in their thinking, and don't bother to teach.

/johnny

88 posted on 03/17/2015 9:40:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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