[twigs]

You're right. The printing press and standardized spelling helped slow language change and as you say, so has modern communications. The beauty of English is that it accepts foreign words so easily. The presence of so many French words along side of Anglo-Saxon words of similar meaning gave English the ability to make fine distinctions in concepts and its continuing acceptance of foreign words insures its place as the prominent global political and commercial language today. This author is trying to superimpose his leftist ideas on the adaptability and primacy of English today throughout the world.

[robowombat]

Exactly. For reasons that are elusive but are at the heart of what makes left liberals tick Schurmann nurtures a profound and deep seated resentment that borders on hatred for the United States. This is the country where his family has flourished as immigrants from repression and where he has achieved material wealth, position, and prestige unthinkable to any in his family in the east Europe they left behind. What has been his response to this measureless good fortune. A career dedicated to inculcating hatred of the US in thousands of university students and a persistent and ill concealed desire to see the US humbled if not beaten into unrecognizable pieces. This guy is very similar to a couple generations of Russian radical liberals who cheered on the destruction of the Czarist regime and were mostly swallowed up in the terrors of the red's triumph. This man and those like him are dangerous.