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Dec 16, 2014, 01:16 PM
#1
Original Gangsta
Barbaric, backwards ancestor worship
"The fetishization of "correct" English -- which is to say, white, wealthy English -- is in direct opposition to everything that makes English such a glorious drunkard's debauch of a language.
English came to us from the inventive malapropism and linguistic entrepreneurship of its speakers: from Shakespeare, who coined words wholesale; to the working-class streets with their heterodox cursing and rhyming slangs.
To demand the immobilization of this restless, incontinent language is a form of barbaric and backwards ancestor-worship. When the Michael Goves of this world tell "language" teachers that their job is to teach the kids in my neighbourhood to forego their innits and I wasn'ts and nuffinks, he is engaging in a kind of linguistic lapsarianism."
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Dec 16, 2014, 01:20 PM
#2
Original Gangsta
And this is why I think that the whole concept of "civilized folk" not using "cuss words" is downright silly.
Free the word! And get those sticks out of yer bottoms.
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Dec 16, 2014, 01:50 PM
#3
Originally Posted by
M. Montaigne
And this is why I think that the whole concept of "civilized folk" not using "cuss words" is downright silly.
Free the word! And get those sticks out of yer bottoms.
**** off.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.
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Dec 16, 2014, 02:04 PM
#4
Original Gangsta
Originally Posted by
CanadianStraps
**** off.
You're such a d**k.
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Dec 16, 2014, 02:05 PM
#5
There's a book on the history of "correct" usage - the overall message seems to be that the more stringent the rules created, the less qualifed was the person creating the rule to be pontificating on the subject.
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Dec 16, 2014, 02:35 PM
#6
Originally Posted by
M. Montaigne
You're such a d**k.
Yeah, but at least I don't **** a ***** until **** and ***** ******, you ****.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.
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Dec 16, 2014, 02:56 PM
#7
Old but Crafty
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson
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Dec 16, 2014, 03:09 PM
#8
Well, ***** ****** ****! And **** ******** ****** ****.
That is all I'm saying on that!
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Dec 16, 2014, 03:10 PM
#9
Originally Posted by
CanadianStraps
Yeah, but at least I don't **** a ***** until **** and ***** ******, you ****.
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Dec 16, 2014, 03:14 PM
#10
Original Gangsta
If you looked like that...
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