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Quote:I always thought it was rather unfair to criticize Dan Quayle for not being able to spell potato
Dan Quayle was reading the "correct" spelling from a card he was given by the teachers. That fact doesn't get the proper amount of exposure, imho. Funny how that works, isn't it?
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Diogenes would follow you into the polling places, Jona, if he weren't in there first.
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Quote:I think this example sums up the problems. And I bless the Italians; if you can read it, you know how to pronounce it.
Reminds me of something Benny Hill was good at.... :lol:
Ghoti....I pronounced it goati...not fish!
Anyway, isn't gh only pronounced f at the end of the word....like cough or enough....!
I hope this doesn't catch on....its bad enough trying to decipher (deesighfur) text talk.... :roll:
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Quote:Ghoti....I pronounced it goati
on second thoughts...isn't that a goatee..!!
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I think the following quote sums up the problem. English is a mishmash of dozens of other languages.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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Bill Cosby offered the following analysis to the NAACP in 2004:
'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact, you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what??
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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