Posted on 09/27/2010 3:36:14 AM PDT by Daffynition
More blather about how every language on the planet is better than English, and what a darn inexplicable shame it is that everybody on the planet seems to be learining English...
I don’t even need to read it. I already know that everybody else is better than us. The MSM tells me this, every day.
Use of good for well. The poor adverb died years ago.
This all assumes that Barack Obama does not have any "side kids"...
Anyone see the Dolphins game last night? They had a big logo on the field...Futbol Americano! Sick. I no longer like them. They even had ugly Orange uniforms. Futbol Americano? Forget about it.
It’s not so much a celebration of other languages as a lament that our public schools have turned out two generations who do not properly use their own.
Or that those are really his. I suspect Barky Obama is a straight homo.
Professor Henry Higgins c. 1910 : “Why in America, they haven’t spoken it for years.”
Doesn’t the author know that using proper English is at least elitist and most likely racist?
2) Get over it... being the most descriptive LANGUAGE in the world... it will remain the International Language.
3) Foreigners pay to learn slang English.
LLS
As the Western world dies, so does her language.
A well written observation. The terminal disease is even more apparent in UK publications.
Take a peek (peak, pique) at the articles in this UK publication.
http://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/news
Pioneering project tackles trio of problems
A desperate shortage of affordable homes, jobless youngsters drifting through life without skills, and the need to find sustainable ways of living – a Norfolk charity is tackling this trio of major problems head-on with a pioneering project.
ML/NJ
ur prolly rite
This article is incoherent.
The language is not ‘dead’ because of a lot of carelessness.
There is no rational connection between the author’s examples and whether the English language remains alive or dead.
Yes, there are millions of slovenly users of the language, including professional writers and editors who should know better.
Nothing in the article suggests that the language is dead or dying.
Ping! =o)
Do you read the comics/funnies section of the newspaper? One of reasons I enjoy reading the comics is because the authors’ English is always correct! Never an “it’s” instead of an “its” (for possessive) or having the PLURAL of dogs be “dog’s”! SOMEBODY must be proofreading!
Thanks for sharing!
LLS
“using proper English is at least elitist and most likely racist?”
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Dayum bro, you ain’t gonna tap dat isht?
;-(
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