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| 30 Nov 2012 08:27 PM |
For me, it's a cause of some upset that more anglophones don't *enjoy* language. Music is enjoyable but it seems so are dance and other forms of athletic movement. People seem to be able to find sensual and sensuous pleasure in almost anything *but* words these days. Words, it seems belongs to people, anyone who expresses themselves with originality, delight and verbal freshness is more likely to be *distrusted* or *disliked* than welcomed. The free and happy use of words appears to be elitist or pretentious. Sadly, desperately sadly, the only people who bother with it today bother with it in quite the **wrong** way. They write letters to newspapers and broadcasters in which they are rude and haughty about other people's usage and in which they show off their own superior 'knowledge' of language should be.
Well I'm glad to say I've outgrown that silly approach to language. Oscar Wilde, and there have been a few greater and more complete lords in the past thousand years, once included with a manuscript he was delivering to his publisher a compliment script in which he scribbled the injunction, "I'll leave you to tidy up the woulds and shoulds, wills and shalls, thats and witches," which all gives us encouragement to feel less guilty, don't you think? There are all kinds of pendants around with the time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters and novels and stories it seems. They whip our their Sharpies and take away apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings. But do they bubble and froth and slobber with joy at language? Do they ever let the touching of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-s.ex of it? Do they ever use language to seduce, charm, excite, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they?
I doubt it. They're too farting busy sneering at greengrocer's less than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think they're guardians of language? They're no more than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dog-kind.
"Common sense? What's that?" |
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| 30 Nov 2012 08:31 PM |
This is basically almost all of role-play;
> They whip our their Sharpies and take away apostrophes from public > signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and > mutter at split infinitives and misspellings. But do they bubble and > froth and slobber with joy at language? Do they ever let the touching > of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport > them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words > together for the sound-s.ex of it? Do they ever use language to > seduce, charm, excite, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? > > I doubt it. They're too farting busy sneering at greengrocer's less > than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think > they're guardians of language? They're no more than the Kennel Club is > the guardian of dog-kind.
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| 30 Nov 2012 08:46 PM |
You foul, indescribable, disgusting, illiterate cretin... GET OUT OF MY SIGHT.
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| 30 Nov 2012 08:51 PM |
Everything.
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:11 PM |
Oh, please. For one, I think you are taking WAY too strong a view on this. Most people on the internet aren't English professors, but they don't act like this: " Imma trol to anoy yo"
It is true, people aren't as fluent in their English as they might be in real life. But you must account for the fact that many of these grammatical and spelling errors are just accidents. Quite a few people on here that I've come to like and respect are quite well-spoken, and many of the people here are writers to boot. Look before you leap. Your opinion I believe to be strong, devoid of a facts, and rather written in haste. |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:14 PM |
No.
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:18 PM |
| See? Your senseless opinion goes against you. " No" is a word devoid of any criticism, opinion, and fact. You waste your time to write a few paragraphsover your hot-headed opinion and all you can defend it with is "No"? Pitiful, my friend. Just pitiful. |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:24 PM |
| Ich denke, ein solches Thema ist eine komplette Zeitverschwendung. Warum nerven mich dumme Themen Sprache? |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:26 PM |
| Lovely use of Google translate. The least you could have done was make it into a less widely known language? German is rather, well, dull? |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:29 PM |
| Why thank you! I am quite proud of my ability to use Google translate! But what do you have against Germany? Much better then....French....or...Spanish. |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:29 PM |
You're quite silly.
I didn't write this paragraphs, nor would I waste my time writing it in the first place.
This was by Stephen Fry.
SILLY. "Common sense? What's that?" |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:30 PM |
HEY HEY I HAVE AN IDEA
LETS ALL BASH EACHOTHER OVER THE HEAD AND TEAR EACHOTHERS THROATS OUT
SEEMS LIKE THE CIVILIZED THING TO DO |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:31 PM |
| Actually, the civilized thing to do would be to turn off caps lock. |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:31 PM |
Oh, by the way, all your statements fell into void, as you were insulting on a "hot-headed" paragraph that wasn't even my opinion in the first place.
Pathetic.
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:33 PM |
| Pathetic? I still believe that the statement is hot-headed. Does it truly matter who wrote it? Also, may I ask, why did you post it if it isn't your opinion, eh? |
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| 30 Nov 2012 09:37 PM |
**pa·thet·ic/pəˈTHetik/** Adjective: Arousing pity, esp. through vulnerability or sadness. Miserably inadequate.
Yes, it truly matters who wrote it, because Stephen Fry is a literate genius.
And I posted it because I had informed role-play of a fairly enlightening video [the one I have chose to write the lyrics for] but no one seemed to pay heed.
So I decided to post this.
Which isn't all of it.
So you can't say quite fully say that it is hot-headed.
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:49 PM |
IF I HEAR ANYBODY DISS ONE MORE LANGUAGE I WILL BURN AN ORPHANAGE.
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:50 PM |
| AT LEAST EVACUATE THE ORPHANS FIRST? |
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:51 PM |
YES. EVACUATE THEM ALL INTO THE SAME ROOM. LESS GAS I'LL HAVE TO BUY. BESIDES, WITH THIS RAGING ECONOMY, IT'S A MUCH BETTER DEAL.
THANKS TAI |
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:52 PM |
D:
NO
I MEANT
GET THEM OUT OF THE BUILDING
AAAAAAAAH |
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:57 PM |
OH MY GOD THAT'S GENIUS. WE'LL GET THEM INTO A SMALL BUILDING. MORE EFFECTIVE, AND LESS GAS PRICE.
THANKS TAI. |
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| 30 Nov 2012 10:57 PM |
What struck me like a rock was the lines which you speak of new different idea as disgust. I agree. The rest of it was also good, but, just saying. |
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