Posted on 09/12/2014 2:13:42 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
My speech, punctuation and spelling may not be perfect but it is understandable to English speakers around the world.
My achy-breaky heart...
A vocabulary is the tool used by your brain to form thoughts.
As an education institution has a responsibility to the child to prepare them for the REAL world...you want to be in business? Speak correctly. Dou want to work in science or technology? You’d better be able to articulate things extremely precisely.
...these idiots are the same ones complaining that there’s so few blacks in science and technology. We’re in a GLOBAL economy, I work with people in Romania that speak MUCH better English than many over here. It helps them be successful. We DON’T hire people we can’t easily communicate it, especially as much of it is over the phone.
Requiring correct spelling and grammar is just micro-agression.
^ ...excuse my typos!! lol
Based solely on the title, nothing is more delicious than the tears of fascist liberal control freak asshats.
Proper grammar allows for clarity of thought and meaning. It is a natural obstacle to those intellectual leftists who deliberately strive to dumb down our language by replacing English with gutter Newspeak.
That this man is a college professor is completely appalling.
I completely agree with you, but am constrained to point out that you should have written "there ARE so few blacks."
(Just messin' with ya, man.) But I do agree with what you are saying.
Those doing research into mind reading (Legitimate thought reading, not ESP) have found that our thoughts are very much word oriented. Individual words come from specific parts of our brains and follow specific pathways. Once those pathways are mapped, they can know what a person is thinking with a fair degree of accuracy.
In the science show I watched, they had a subject wired up with an EEG. A TV screen would show them photograph of something like a beach in Hawaii. In the next room words would come from a computer program that had mapped the subject’s brain. Words on the screen would be things like beach, sand, palm, hotel, mountain, tropical.
The progressive idea of manipulating language to manipulate populations is not new.
In “The Language of the 3rd Reich” Victor Klemperer speaks of his experiences in nazi (or is that nazil) Germany. He tells how the nazis manipulated the German language as a means of making German society more accepting of nazi goals.
Progressives have been at it in this country for quite some time. The word “militia” used to denote honor, patriotism, and duty. Today the word is often used in conversations about racism and anti government sentiment.
“Pro choice” is another good example. It means pro abortion but that isn’t acceptable to as many people as this vague idea of “choice”. After all, what is more American than choice? “Pro life” can’t be read any other way than what it is which is why the left calls us “anti choice” or anti woman’s health.
Can you say "First-world problem"?
I remember a time when using BAD grammar got you shunned. Now, thanks to the false egalitarianism of the lowest common denominator, the opposite holds true.
Thank you, Post-modernists.
Now that's odd, isn't it? Because our good Professor appears to imagine that "social equity, class, education, race, age, ethnicity, gender" have specific, clearly delineated meanings and are to be used in specific ways. Bit of a language fascist himself, isn't he?
I purposely include typo’s in my commentary, so as to confuse the grammar police, however sometimes the stupid auto correct tarts my efforts...er…thwarts my efforts.
I was going to post that exact picture when I read the same comment. :)
GMTA... 8^)
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