Scientific Mobthink: The Chris Landsea Story (Environazis at work)

ModernConservative.com ^ | Christopher Cook

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...This dogmatic notion, enforced with alarming severity, has also insinuated itself into every fiber of our public education system. Children today are unable to read, write, compute, or even speak at grade level---and they can't find Canada on a world map---but you can be darned sure they know whose fault global warming is. I recall, many years ago, seeing a note pinned to a friend's door from his young cousin that read, "you are the best cusen (sic) in the wrld (sic)." A very sweet, albeit poorly spelled gesture of familial affection. Of course, on that same paper, almost as if compelled by indoctrination, the young boy also included the words, "Recaical---Save the Enviernment," (better spelled as "Recycle---Save the Environment). Of all the possible sentiments this young cousin could have included in his friendly note, the unseen (yet often brutal) hand of the Left guided him to repeat a few articles from the Leftist creed. Good little drone.

As many of us are all too painfully aware, people on the alarmist left will blame ANYTHING on anthropogenic global warming. Warm weather, cold weather, droughts, excessive rain---anything that inconveniences them as they drive to pilates class or their favorite Starbucks simply has to...

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[tomzz]

...This dogmatic notion, enforced with alarming severity, has also insinuated itself into every fiber of our public education system. Children today are unable to read, write, compute, or even speak at grade level---and they can't find Canada on a world map---but you can be darned sure they know whose fault global warming is. I recall, many years ago, seeing a note pinned to a friend's door from his young cousin that read, "you are the best cusen (sic) in the wrld (sic)."

If English is going to be some sort of a worldwide language of business and commerce, then we need a phonetic alphabet for it. At present, we do not have one.

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English has 4 times the vocabulary words as the nearest competitor language, a richness of colloquialisms drawn from every aspect of human endeavor, and a palimpsest of influence from its multiple antecedent languages.

Simply put, English is the greatest language in the world. Let's not pick at it.

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