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An English teacher proudly hates the English language: Insists that grammar and writing rules are based in white supremacy so she tries to undermine it in her classroom
American Thinker ^ | 12/05/2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/05/2022 9:24:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind

English is a glorious language that has developed over a thousand years, borrowing from every other tongue as it goes, and developing strict rules to maintain maximum coherence. It is spoken around the world and is, therefore, the language of money and power. But to a White, middle-aged leftist English teacher, the English language she’s responsible for teaching to all students, regardless of race, color, creed, etc., is nothing more than an ugly White supremacist means of controlling people.

More than any language in the world, English is a portmanteau language—that is, it has cheerfully borrowed from every language with which English speakers have come into contact, creating a language of unusual richness and beauty. Over the millennia, it has absorbed myriad tongues into its Germanic core: Latin, Greek, the Romance languages, French, Hindu, Welsh, Gaelic, Dutch, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Swahili, and more. In this, it differs greatly from other languages. The French, for example, are proud that their language has calcified.

Over the same time, it has developed grammar rules that are intended to ensure the utmost clarity when communicating. Take, for example, one of my favorites, which is the rule against dangling or misplaced modifiers. There is a huge difference between “The girl in the red bathing suit watched a seagull flying by,” and “The girl watched a seagull flying by in a red bathing suit.”

I also like the rules saying that the wise writer avoids passive voice. Which sentence do you prefer? “The dog played with the child’s ball” or “The ball of the child was played with by the dog.”

Image: Title page of the original Webster’s Dictionary (1828) by Cullen328. CC BY-SA 3.0.

There are also structural rules that make communication better.

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To: TLI

I be
we be
you be
they be

I is
we is
you is
they is hooked on ebonics!


21 posted on 12/05/2022 11:16:14 PM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: gitmo

An antonym for teacher would be this:

Deprogrammer — a person or thing that removes the effects of brainwashing or indoctrination


22 posted on 12/05/2022 11:25:13 PM PST by deks
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To: Mogger

Spanish is even easier than Russian, verbs and gender notwithstanding. Portuguese also, except pronunciation can be a bear.


23 posted on 12/05/2022 11:38:45 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The silly woman it out of luck. Since the European conquest of the world, there are no non-Euro international “common languages” of any real use out there. Spanish is just as European and colonial as English.

One can make a sort of argument for either Cantonese or Mandarin, or Hindi, or Arabic, but in all cases one is limited to speaking within the (granted, large) cultural milieu they represent.


24 posted on 12/05/2022 11:44:21 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Mogger

Bet you can’t speak Pottawatomi...

Megwetch NiCan...


25 posted on 12/05/2022 11:50:20 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

It’s amazing how often these leftist loons look like parodies of leftist loons.


26 posted on 12/06/2022 12:03:31 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s right. She IS part of the problem. Only the problem isn’t the language.


27 posted on 12/06/2022 12:07:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Mogger
English is a horrible language to try to learn.

Au contraire! English spelling and/or pronunciation is horrible to learn.

Russian is very simple.

Russian grammar is a nightmare.

Five cases (six if you include - Bozhe Moje! - the Vocative, which has admittedly pretty much died out [but is still alive and well in the sister Slavic languages of the Balkans]).

Then, three genera (masculine, feminine, neutral - granted, the word ending usually reveals clues as to the respective genus) and two numeri (singular and plural).

One also has to differentiate between animate and inanimate objects.

How do you say, "I need one hundred and two books" in Russian? How do you say, "I need the one hundred and second book" in Russian?

This explains why Russian - when translated literally into English - usually sounds so coarse and impolite: The Russian language forces speakers to be blunt.

If the Russian speaker were to instead employ all of the little polite words and verb forms his language theoretically allows, the resulting sentences would be nightmarishly difficult to formulate!

Regards,

28 posted on 12/06/2022 12:10:30 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Mogger

English is a horrible language to try to learn. Nothing to do with “white supremacy”.

I always thought of Chinese being a difficult language to learn. Being character based instead of phonetic, one has to learn thousands of characters to read the language. Then to ice the cake, pronunciation is based on tone, so depending on how you say a sound, the meaning can be four completely different words.


29 posted on 12/06/2022 12:10:42 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: SeekAndFind

30 posted on 12/06/2022 12:12:47 AM PST by Bratch
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To: SeekAndFind

Fire her without prejudice.


31 posted on 12/06/2022 12:27:25 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Another young white liberal female. They hate this country more than our worst enemies.


32 posted on 12/06/2022 12:39:51 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.They have an endgame and that's at)
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To: Mogger

I learned Russian.

Its complicated in different ways.

Having gender assigned to everything affecting word endings amd having to remember what objects are which gender is archaic. Plus inconsistent because other languages may classify objects in a different gender and so often people who learned a prior language with gender got confused.

Second for many people it can be weird to have sentences where predicate is before the subject, ie the action/verb phrase is before the noun. The equivalent of “Ran to the store, did Ivan.” Or even “Ran Ivan to the store.” I mean you can figure it out but it sounds clunky to an english speaker and as an english speaker saying it in Russian, would always phrase is subject/predicate.

Third the dialects are different based on where you are which makes it difficult. Moscow speakers don’t speak it the same as those in different rural areas.

I had a hardcore russian lady teacher from the former soviet union teaching me, plus some emigrated russians in my family. I am also part Russian.


33 posted on 12/06/2022 12:44:50 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Like other things libs worry about she should err on the side of caution, assume she is part of the problem, and self remove herself for the good of society and the kids.


34 posted on 12/06/2022 12:46:09 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mogger
“English is a horrible language to learn “ I've heard this phrase one way or another repeatedly over the years. Since English is my first language, I've got no clue much less an opinion on the statement.

You mentioned Russian…. I know zip about Russian language. However, on several occasions, I have referred to scientific papers in Russian and have been relieved that abstracts, tables and graphs generally are in English and with standard scientific units. That's been good enough for my purposes. I will say, if a scientific paper wants to have much if any impact outside of Russian borders, it had better publish in English or be a forgotten curiosity.

My son knows English, Spanish, German and Japanese. Drives me nuts. I'll ask him what he thinks.

I grew up in Santa Fe and Tesuque, New Mexico. My parents from Oklahoma had a time with understanding me from toddler through elementary school. Jumbled up Spanish and English. Spanish faded when we moved back to OK. Spanish revived with high school then college studies.

Spanish has long been faded to where I can only legibly read, pronounce words but don't know what the words mean. Spanish is sort of backwards from an English language sentence structure and thus your brain is twisted a bit differently.

35 posted on 12/06/2022 12:58:28 AM PST by Hootowl99
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Hmmm. Another destructive leftist scumbag wearing a “tell.” In this case, it’s crazy, pretentious-looking glasses. Weird glasses and crazy hair color almost always indicate that the wearer is an America hating, West-hating, thug-and-filth loving demon.


36 posted on 12/06/2022 12:58:55 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Self hating MARXIST POS.


37 posted on 12/06/2022 1:02:48 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: SeekAndFind; All

All languages have rules, and some are complicated. Compared to other Latin-based languages, English can be rather difficult, and that is because it is so adaptive. However, as native speakers, we should be able to learn it easily. If native German speakers and Japanese speakers can learn it, so can the kids out of the ghetto. It all comes down to drive and the quality of teachers.

I’m normally great with language (I found Spanish and German intuitive and easy - very logical rules), but Japanese eluded me. My husband aced his high school Italian classes without even buying a book for the class, and my brother became fluent enough in Japanese to travel there numerous times and communicate without the aid of a translator.

See? Drive. Simple answer.


38 posted on 12/06/2022 1:27:55 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it’s a supreme language... why would she want to deny a ‘lesser child’ (her opinion) the keys of supremacy, making them equals?

https://www.beaufort.com/the-history-of-the-penn-center/


39 posted on 12/06/2022 2:07:59 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Mogger

A curious feature of the Russian language is that there is no present tense of the verb To Be. In Russian, to say I am home, is “Ya doma”. Takes some getting used to.


40 posted on 12/06/2022 2:15:39 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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