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.
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.
Professor Henry Higgins c. 1910 : “Why in America, they haven’t spoken it for years.”
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
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.
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!
Shouldn’t this have been written in French?
But, u no, it ain't gonna happen 4 a long time.
I recall one such creature "correcting" a letter I once wrote to the Mercury-News, replacing the appropriate "arrant" with the inappropriate "errant," with a predictable and deleterious effect on the semantic content of the sentence. This was not so much an evil plot of a liberal rag (which it is) to obscure the golden prose of a conservative correspondent (which I am) but more a case of a well-meaning ignoramus intent on dragging his readers down to his level. Nevertheless, it was my name that appeared beneath. No literate jury would ever convict me for continuing the editorial discourse with a fire axe.
All that is in the keeping of an ordinary citizen is to do the best that he or she can, armed with computer-based, automagical spell-checkers holding skimpy 10,000-word lexicons, and dependent on an occasionally faulty memory for the rules of grammar and syntax that are yet beyond mechanical aid, thank God. One might hope for more professional standards from a professional. One might also hope for the Easter Bunny to poop chocolate eggs.
Here’s some words and phrases I’d like to see die. Just listen to conversations and interviews and see how overused these are:
Absolutely
“you know…”
“I mean…”
“I was like...”
“just so you know…”
Constantly ending a statement with “OK ?”
“do you know what I’m saying ?”
Its like awesome texting!
Time to move on to “mexebonics”.