Posted on 09/28/2016 7:28:54 AM PDT by C19fan
Ater Monday night's presidential debate, most pundits are focusing on who won, who lost, and what it all means for the future of the country. But the only thought that keeps asserting itself in my mind is this: These candidates are terrible at speaking English.
I mean that in the most literal sense possible: They're bad at formulating complete, grammatically correct sentences that effectively carry meaning. And this isn't just a petty complaint about "style" or "form" — it says something bigger about America, and this dumpster fire of an election we're in.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
poly = many [Gr]
tete = head [Fr]
Politician = many headed monster
Be careful of your thoughts, for they become your words. Be careful of your words, for they become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for they become your character. Be careful of your character, for it becomes your destiny.
In my humble opinion texting is doing very severe and lasting damage to the English language. Another generation or two and nobody will be capable of writing a non-machine generated complete sentence.
This has apparently already infested the journalism school graduates who write the screen-bottom scrawl for cable news channels.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't- till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all."
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper some of them- particularly verbs: they're the proudest- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!
" Through the Looking Glass, Ch. VI
I've observed this for some time. The atrocious spelling and appalling grammar are the norm now.
They grew up speaking gibberish and when challenged, they said "Oh you know what I mean".
And their generation is teaching our children and grandchildren - unless we and our own children are smart enough to home school, and teach them correct English.
“dumpster fire of an election”
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Insurgencies ALWAYS look like “dumpster fires,” its their nature!
He also suffers from an "intellectual stutter" that occurs when his "brilliant mind" races faster than his lips can move.
ur rite.
There are several reasons for this:
* liberals refusing to use straightforward terms for concepts and instead using more abstract and emotionally removed phrases for ideas; George Carlin’s rant on this was brilliant a decade ago like shell shock turning into PTSD.
* their redefinition of words to not include them for bad things (blacks beating up whites screaming racist insults can’t be racist per the bias + power definition) and include them when it isn’t (well if an X is this and this, then I’m X!”
* the in group language of SJWs getting reinforced in academia and the elite seen as the “elite, educated” dialect, allowing them to dismiss those who don’t use the fancy proper terms as stupid, which fits the liberal prejudiced view of conservatives fine. And that view reinforces that dialect as the right, proper and refined one that “good” people must use
* They do it in an effort to alter the emotions tied to the concepts, per Sapir-Whorf theory that language shapes though. If they ban “gendered” or “racist” terms, they think they’ll eliminate those thoughts - but they have to invent replacements that only their elite know first. Now we’re back to in-group language reinforcing social class status.
You noticed that bit of obligatory propaganda, too.
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