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To: rhema

Why, why, why can’t liberals just leave speech alone? The language is probably their most-favored tool...they think if they can control the language, they can ultimately control the world.

“Hu”, eh? I have seen “hir” in lieu of him or her, but only by moonbats over the internet. Same for “womyn”, another affectation.


3 posted on 06/24/2007 2:34:15 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Baladas
they think if they can control the language, they can

They speak nonsense most of the day and fallacy the rest.

6 posted on 06/24/2007 2:36:35 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Baladas
Why, why, why can’t liberals just leave speech alone? The language is probably their most-favored tool...they think if they can control the language, they can ultimately control the world.

I've heard California linguistics professors complain about the white, middle-class hegemony our current grammar system wields over oppressed minorities. Maybe hu will set the captives free.

15 posted on 06/24/2007 2:50:49 PM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Baladas

They have way too much free time on their hands, this would change if they were employed.


66 posted on 06/24/2007 5:13:38 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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Hu?
68 posted on 06/24/2007 7:08:48 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Your home for pithy disquistion)
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