Posted on 02/23/2017 12:50:22 AM PST by Hadean
Speech all double plus good good is.
How raciss bass turd say otherwise...?
From the same cast of idiots who gave us this;
“Students Reject Honor to ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ Hero (Col. Greg “Pappy” Boyington)”
“Member of Marines not ‘sort of person UW wanted to produce”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1578343/posts
Just found this pleasant wrap up to that whole mess;
“Statue of WWII hero Boyington dedicated at Coeur d’Alene Airport”
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/14/statue-of-wwii-hero-boyington-dedicated-at-coeur/
Just returned from Aruba. 7 years ago, because Tourism is the main industry, HS grads were required to speak 6 languages fluently, and were proud of it. Now it’s down to 4. French and German have been dropped. Even Aruba has snowflakes, it seems.
a must see http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=10707 Tranltation included
When California falls into the ocean, will it take Washington state with it?
35 years ago, Sen. Daniel Patrick Monaghan; a Democrat, no less, saw this coming and called it “The dumbing down of America.” He was jeered and poo-poohed and dubbed Daniel MOAN-ahan. But he was right, and it seems to worsen every day.
In a good sentence, there will be a clear subject and verb, to which subordinate clauses may be attached. The example sentence does not have a clear subject and verb. The pairs you mentioned are all “pronoun + linking verb” sets, rather than true nouns or verbs. That is one of several reasons it is a poor sentence.
One of my sons writes long, compound-complex sentences, sometimes with multiple semicolons. That style can be effective, but it’s easy for the point to get lost. I encourage him to break them up, not because they are incorrect, but because his teachers want to read a paper quickly to assign a grade, not at leisure to enjoy his style.
Just when you thought you had heard of every absurd aniti-White racist thing they could come up with, there’s another asoa inoue face.
Instead, they are now declaring learning to be racist.
- PJ
Amen! One of my pet peeves. Bigger than, sweeter than, sexier than; yes. But different than? Bleep no! If something is different, it’s different FROM whatever you’re comparing. However in a debate or discussion, one may differ WITH his opponent.
Excellent distinction! One may also differ from one's opponent by being, for example, taller than he.
(Please note that I committed a gender microaggression there.)
I’m guessing English, Spanish, Portugese and Dutch? Aruba was a nice vacation with wonderful people when I first visited in 2001. I returned in 2015 to find an overcrowded, somewhat hostile environment. Jaunted over to Curacao and found it to be much more welcoming.
At the present rate there will be no more French and German in 200 years..the national languages will be Farsi and Arabic.
“University of Washington Declares Proper Grammar Is Racist”
While not racist will the same rule apply to whites who speak non standard english, like Southerners with a backwoods drawl, or people with a thick Brooklyn accent? Will liberals still make fun of them and call them stupid?
Actually, there might be an upside to this. I am weary of the well spoken ignorance, the articulate irrationality, of the Diversity Establishment. They have been trained to present their irrationality in a lofty, rational manner thanks to the structure of the English language.
If this takes root their syntax, grammar, and rhetoric will once again match their stupidity, robbing them of the advantage they have gleaned from the schools that took them in.
By the way, manners are racist as well.
An analysis of this issued must begin by determining if “proper grammar” is a better means of communicating than some other grammar.
If “proper grammar” is indeed a better means of communicating then teaching it versus some other grammar is simply doing what’s best for students.
I expect our educators to do what’s best for students at all times.
“As time went by I learned that she and the other blacks could turn their “white” or “black” speech on and off like a faucet depending on the audience”.
I know a couple of examples of this. In my case people are usually surprised to find out I grew up in Brooklyn because I do not have the typical accent. However when I travel to NYC the accent returns, often without my realizing it.
In another case I had a co-worker who gave absolutely no indication of being gay. Then one day after he learned he was being fired for poor performance, he displayed the typical speech pattern and gestures often associated with being gay. I found out some time later his next job was teaching at a local boys Christian academy.
I would argue that the pronouns make perfectly viable subjects. For example, the leading "It" in the professor's sentence clearly refers to subjects already defined in previous sentences, and so does not need to be defined again. In general, pronouns serve as a handy form of shorthand to avoid having to define the subject (or object) in every sentence. In some cases, the pronoun serves as a filler since we cannot have a sentence without a subject--for instance, we must say "It is raining," but what, in this case, is the "It"?
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