Posted on 05/27/2021 7:45:08 PM PDT by RandFan
I wonder how much of this is going on across our country. Thankfully my wife and I are on the same side in this ordeal.
The gov’t and media ect have pushed so hard, to make covid seem like the Black Plague, the great killer of all of mankind, and coupled that directly into a push to get everyone to want to vaccinate with a highly experimental set of vaccines. They used the virtue signal aspect to perfection this time, to where kids are sneaking around their parents backs just to get the jab, so they can be cool, and show everyone they care.
We are on a very slippery slope, and I fear that government has us right where they have always wanted us.
Damn all of you that feared this virus, damn all of you that beat the experimental vaccine drum. I used to think that I would hate to share a foxhole with the likes of you people, but now I realize that will not be a problems, for I shall be on the opposite side of no mans land as you.
A dictionary isn’t a grammar manual.
The fact is, the usage can go either way, and has always done.
A game for you:
What does your F&W say about the difference between ‘inalienable’ and ‘unalienable’?
According to the CDC we've had 593K Covid deaths in the US and none attributed to the vaccines.
e=mc2
Piqued my curiosity as well, and the singular form, though not by clear definition, seems to be the winner — at least in the context of English grammar.
Nonetheless... none being “not one” and/or “not many” implies the quality of zero which is neither singular nor multiple.
I think he’s worried about the experimental substances, not the ‘rona itself.
Bkmk
Yep. Similar position here, except with sons, one of whom is the same age as your daughter. I spoke my piece. They have to make their own decision. Of course, I’m worried. Then again, maybe I’ll change my mind and get the shot myself later. Right now, though, I don’t trust it.
English actually is - and has always been - a ‘living’ and changing language. I suspect that most, if not all,languages are.
Usages change over time, and there is not always a ‘political’ reason behind that - sometimes it’s just a visceral one, felt internally by enough people that the usage changes through sheer common predilection and practice.
Such a scenario would be the perfect way to ensure that a future bioweapon only killed your enemy’s population, and not your own. Just food for thought.
>> a changing language
So true, and we can see that within the documents of our Country’s relatively short existence.
Her loss, not yours. I had a near knock-down, drag-out with my senior father to urge him not serve as a guinea pig for this unproven vaccine (after all, he never ever got a flu shot) and he got it anyway.
A news story about a tiktok video?
Not just deaths - but serious suffering, long lasting and in some cases permanent disabilities, etc. Not to mention being a vector.
“A dictionary isn’t a grammar manual.”
A good dictionary nonetheless provides some useful information.
F&W shows the meanings of “none” as “no one, not one, no,” but notes that it is “popularly used in a plural sense.” What do you suppose they meant by that?
“What does your F&W say about the difference between ‘inalienable’ and ‘unalienable’?”
It gives “unalienable” as a synonym for “inalienable.” Of course, “unalienable” was in use in 1776 at the latest, so it has credibility on its own.
I agree.
We had a Webster’s from the ‘70s and even that didn’t accept all this nonsense. Never mind the English handbooks I got in the ‘80s.
“loan”, “snuck”, etc. All bad, but now “acceptable”.
Sorry, but this is a major peeve of mine.
The correct word is INalienable.
Why?
Per linguistics and word roots, pre/root/suffixes must match.
“Alien” is Greek; so is “in”.
“Un” is Germanic. It does NOT match “alien”.
You’re seeing it as Boolean math/logic, rather than English.
Using the English words:
“Not one” would be mated up with “is...”, not “are”. Look at the conjunction.
Has nothing (ha ha) to do with it being “0”.
What is this God like reverance for “fda approved” ? Every toxic cancer drug on the market is “fda approved” and look how quickly they kill you, either directly or by causing secondary cancers down the road. And there are the toxic non cancer drugs which will potentially kill you too. You only have to listen to a tv ad announcer reciting a long list of possible side effects. But when it comes to a vaccine which has proved itself in large scale clinical trials and among millions of the general population...oh no no no no.. we need the supreme FDA’s stamp of approval. That will make it the magic elixir. Until then it’s poison.
“and there is not always a ‘political’ reason behind that”
Throughout the long march of the left through our institutions, there has been a political reason: to desensitize us to changes in the language we use.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3942432/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3954318/posts
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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