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Greek Fisherman
Topic Started: Jun 23 2010, 05:50 PM (765 Views)
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Sure Today Englishmen are not Germans.
And they felt no feeling already in middleage.

I was only saing that German languages family include English also if it is the less germanic of the family.
Romenian is the same for latin group, the more slavic but latin anyway.
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Jun 25 2010, 08:30 AM
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Jun 25 2010, 02:25 AM
To Hesperia: Not a cheap shot at all.... In fact that is a GREAT point.

To NH: I understand back 200, 100, hell even 50 years ago if African-American couldn't speak proper English, just as I understand that rural people can't speak proper English. But in this day and age, they have the opportunity, and it's not racist if someone points out they don't take it. Now if anyone said that African-Americans can't learn proper English, that would be racist.

To Abnar: Nothing is wrong with "linguistic elitism". But I think a better term instead of "linguistic elitism" would have been "Grammar Nazi", at least in this case

Al. Sharpton is an idiot, who makes his living inciting racial hatred. I can't wait for the day that these "race hustlers" no longer exist.
T.O. Wrong. I can all but guarentee you that Al Sharpton, et al, write perfectly well. There is very little connection between speaking and writing. With over 1700 languages in the world trying to use about 7 alphabets, you can damn well bet there is a big difference. Speaking comes naturally to human beings, it does not have to be "taught" formally, it is just absorbed, and Al Sharpton learned his way of speaking from his family, who learned it from their families, who learned it from their families, etc. Writing does not come naturally to man. It is very difficult, requires formal education, learning rules, adapting to a symbol system, and having a reason for writing at all. Native American societies NEVER developed writing systems because they never developed commerce that required keeping track of things.

Al Sharpton is a product of his environment, to be sure, just as we all are. He can no more change his spoken syntax than you can, y'all.
Ahhh. Al Sharpton's childhood.

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