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To: 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.


2 posted on 09/27/2010 3:38:12 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Use of good for well. The poor adverb died years ago.


3 posted on 09/27/2010 3:40:36 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Haiku Guy
The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter.

This all assumes that Barack Obama does not have any "side kids"...

4 posted on 09/27/2010 3:41:10 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: Haiku Guy

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.


6 posted on 09/27/2010 3:59:09 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: Haiku Guy
And Spanish titles and commercials on Sunday Night Football! Disgusting.

ML/NJ

14 posted on 09/27/2010 4:56:02 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Haiku Guy
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.

And yet they find it odd we cancel our subscriptions and change the channel...

39 posted on 09/27/2010 3:05:53 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: Haiku Guy
I don’t even need to read it.

And you apparently didn't.

You don't need to comment on it either ...

41 posted on 09/27/2010 3:51:34 PM PDT by x
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To: Haiku Guy

There’s no discussion of other languages. It’s all about how basic grammar, even in places where the people are basically paid for nothing other than the ability to put together a proper sentence, has become an unattainable skill these days.

I wonder how much non-English speakers are going through this problem, not because their language is “superior” but because word processors haven’t known about them for as long. Most of the problem we’re having seem to be because using Word means people don’t have to learn, just hit F7 and take all the suggestions and hope for the best.


42 posted on 09/27/2010 3:57:31 PM PDT by discostu (Keyser Soze lives)
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