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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She should not be speaking English in her class—or anywhere else.
Problem solved.
I keep waiting for Russia to denounce ethnic Russians or China to denounce ethnic Chinese....
They will never be that stupid.
IMO if we had not won the revolution and the USA did not exist English would be on its way to being forgotten
Yep by a hole gob lot makes things gooder.
That doesn’t get out much on a Saturday night plays with cat.
I like cooking my family and my pets.
(Commas are important!)
Since we were talking about language recently, thought I’d shoot you this PING!
Fantastic article to warm the heart of aspiring writers, or anyone who wants to communicate clearly in any arena.
Frankly, yes; however,
My wife and I are retired college educators. Reading and grading our student’s written papers got to be increasingly difficult as many of our students could not write a coherent English sentence. They were never taught the rules of grammar and particularly sentence construction. I was taught in 7th grade how to diagram sentences and learn graphically how sentences are put together. This method is probably as arcane as phonics but taught me how to write. Understanding sentence construction in English also helped me to better understand my second language, French.
A recent DailyMail article about Sam Brinton, Biden's nonbinary Deputy Assistant Secretary of the DoE for nuclear waste ("who goes by they/them pronouns") was about "their" being charged with felony theft for stealing a woman's luggage at an airport. A witty UK reader's comment was,
"Surely they should be serving 5 years each. The only decision when sentencing should be if they serve concurrently or consecutively."
What this generation needs is a binge weekend of Dean Martin Roasts. I'm amazed the Googzilla still allows them on YouTube.
She do be a nutcase.
Lol true and of course there’s the immortal “sitzpinkler.”
Regarding Das Boot, I tried to watch the English overdubbed version and had to turn it off. The problem is when they removed the original dialogue they also removed all the ambient and incidental sounds. They attempted to “Foley” a few of those sounds back in but it clearly was done on a shoestring budget and sounded totally canned. One of these days I’m going to watch it again in the subtitled version so that all of the original audio is intact. The funny thing about subtitles is that after a few minutes you adjust and almost quit noticing them. It’s like your mind melds the spoken sound and written meaning together into one stream.
No kidding...hah, gad, are those things funny!
Thats fine. I am relating what I saw occur in class to other people who had studied other languages prior to Russian. Apparently its not uncommon.
Used to drink with a bunch of reprobates that adopted accents, as we engaged in alcohol fueled repartee...It was a blast. Peter Sellers is/was my favorite, when it comes to accents.
Yes, same here. It is a major clue indicating that the person describing themselves thusly is almost certainly a talentless hack or leftist indoctrinator. Usually both.
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