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Guardian: Correct Grammar is a Racist Power Imbalance
Truth Revolt ^ | 4/23/16 | Mark Tapson

Posted on 04/23/2016 5:23:29 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: dainbramaged

LOL


41 posted on 04/23/2016 6:50:57 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: markomalley
This is part-and-parcel POST-MODERNISM. It has infected our schools, our politics, our morality, et al. There is no right, no wrong, and every culture is equally valid.
42 posted on 04/23/2016 6:51:10 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: dfwgator
Loved the first comment...

“Lets eat grandma!”

“Lets eat, grandma!”

Proper grammar saves lives.

Is that proper grammar or punctuation?

43 posted on 04/23/2016 6:58:40 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: markomalley

Isn’t this just an admission that many blacks are too stupid for normal society?


44 posted on 04/23/2016 7:03:45 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: ichabod1
Hopefully you mean you COULDN’T care less about them.


I hope you mean...

45 posted on 04/23/2016 7:04:19 PM PDT by Go No
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To: RegulatorCountry
An inability to speak well will always be a handicap, and anyone who pretends otherwise is no friend to those he or she would keep in ignorance. If a certain dialect or manner of speaking is something that you wish to keep, to use with family and friends, by all means you can keep it for that reason. But, make no mistake, the larger world does not embrace it, and it has nothing to do with skin color.

Exactly. We all need to use two dialects.

The dialect we grew up with and a common "business dialect".

I really enjoy the sound of a deep south black person or anyone from Cajun country, Texan, etc., talking in their native dialect.

I try to slip back into my back woods native Vermonter dialect at the same time to hopefully entertain them as much as they are entertaining me.

On the other hand, I am a hopeless grammar, punctuation and spelling snob.

Unfortunately I also have some weak points in those areas myself.

I prefer to have a fellow stickler correct me when I goof up, rather than just let it go. It helps with the learning process.

We are a nation of varied dialects, I know of at least four different ones in two counties of Vermont, and can tell you what town a proper native speaker is from. These are of course real, 8th generation Vermonters, not the posers who have invaded the once wonderful state.

Hopefully no one will lose their unique ways of speaking and writing, but add to their abilities proper English for the times when it is needed.

46 posted on 04/23/2016 7:14:57 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger

I’ve always enjoyed hearing regional accents, and have something of an ear for them. If I’m in a place for a week, I start unconsciously picking it up. In the region of NC where I grew up, you could usually tell where somebody grew up, down to the county at least. But, there was a mixed bag of settlers in the colonial era that was the source of that. To the west, Scotch-Irish led to the mountain twang of Appalachia. Due east, a lot of plantations and an accent that would sound at home in Mississippi. To the southeast, Quakers. Directly south, German. Where I was, English, mostly from the southwest of England originally. Quite a patchwork, and there were distinct speech patterns stemming from that two centuries later. Not so much anymore, though.


47 posted on 04/23/2016 7:23:47 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bigredkitty1

“...allows a writer or speaker to share their exact thoughts...”

Correct grammar is important, all right. Too bad so few use it.


48 posted on 04/23/2016 7:28:25 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: markomalley

bump


49 posted on 04/23/2016 7:28:52 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Mogger

“Is that proper grammar or punctuation?”

Yes. Punctuation is a subset of grammar.


50 posted on 04/23/2016 7:34:44 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: markomalley
"The people pointing out those mistakes are more likely to be older, wealthier, white, or just plain academic than the people they're treating with condescension. ..."

There it begins, blame the "intellectuals".
Communist revolutionary zealots are notorious for exterminating suspect intellectuals in large numbers.
It happened Russia, China and Cambodia, to mention a few.

51 posted on 04/23/2016 7:35:49 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: markomalley

Except for the wealthy part, she’s right.
She needs to shut up until she learns English. Or buy a decent word processor.


52 posted on 04/23/2016 8:18:26 PM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

“I’ve always enjoyed hearing regional accents...”

Hah’djoo know ahs fum Jaw-jah? :-)


53 posted on 04/23/2016 8:32:05 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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To: Mogger

On the other hand, I am a hopeless grammar, punctuation and spelling snob.

Unfortunately I also have some weak points in those areas myself.

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You just described me, especially your second remark.

Pet peeve - “infer/imply”. I wish everybody knew the difference.

Over used word, “implode”. Doesn’t anything “explode” anymore?

My special weakness is commas, when and when not to use them. I was taught that when conjunctions are used, commas are not.

True story:

Back in the 70s, Chicago teachers were on strike. I was watching a reporter talking to people on the picket line. He asked one woman, “What do you do at the school”?

I’m not making this up, she replied, “I teaches English”.


54 posted on 04/23/2016 8:56:46 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

“I’m not making this up, she replied, “I teaches English”.

Words fail me——and the sad thing is that no one here would even think that you were making it up.

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55 posted on 04/23/2016 8:59:28 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mark17

Eggsactly.


56 posted on 04/23/2016 9:02:49 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: doorgunner69

He be, she be, it be, they be.


57 posted on 04/23/2016 9:04:09 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: markomalley
One less person to correspond with.

Yo dog, you down wit dat?

5.56mm

58 posted on 04/23/2016 9:06:23 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: markomalley

Interesting article that shows how racists blame even proper grammer on whites.

There’s a big difference between someone being “literally” impaled by a spear or being “virtually” impaled by a spear (as might happen in a movie). The woman’s an imbecile.


59 posted on 04/23/2016 9:44:30 PM PDT by octex
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To: markomalley

Correction to my last posting...

She used the word “figuratively”, while I used the word “virtually”. Both are synonyms, to me.


60 posted on 04/23/2016 9:48:11 PM PDT by octex
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