The Retardation of our Nation
Not only are stereotypical Americans fat, dumb, and lazy, but we're making no effort to improve ourselves. We're actually dumbing things down for the idiot majority. Curious as to what i'm talking about and what incited this opinion?
Something i saw on Channel 7 News today. It's about common phrases using homonyms and such. Phrases like "martial law" which people have begun spelling "marshall law." Instead of correcting them, they are just making both correct and acceptable. This is wrong.
I feel as badly about this as i did when i was a child in church and they altered the phrase "keep us free from all anxiety" to be "keep us free from all needless worry." The way people learn is by hearing something they haven't heard before. If you read a word you dont know, you should look it up. Not piss, moan, and be a lazy cunt because no one spelled it out for you. Become more intelligent! Improve yourself! Read a book! Look in a fucking dictionary! Learn how to use context clues! It is absolutely ridiculous that half our nation is writing "vocal chords," let alone that no one is correcting them. But changing the rules to make them correct? That is terrible.
Common Mistakes:
martial law: marshall law
rein(s): reign(s)
home: hone
hone: home
bated breath: baited breath
toe the line: tow the line
to the manner born: to the manor born
poring over a document: pouring over a document
exorcizing demons: exercising demons
farther: further
further:farther
Many traditional phrases are giving way to alternative terms, the project found. While "free rein" is still used in 54 percent of references, "free reign" now accounts for 46 percent of usage. The term "vocal cords" beats "vocal chords" by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent.
"We don't make any value judgment about spelling," said Soanes. "Spelling has never been fixed. It's always been changing. We have this historical feeling that 'free reign' is wrong, but we're seeing 46 percent doing it. 'Free reign' is not going into the dictionary yet, but it may one day take a variant place in the dictionary."
The increased popularity of "free reign" and "vocal chords" probably starts with people making familiar connections. "People don't ride horses nowadays, but they're familiar with a queen's reign," Soanes said. "It's the same with 'vocal chord.' People know a 'chord' in music, and make the connection."
In some cases, newer variations have entered the Oxford dictionaries, including "straight-laced," which is now used 66 percent of the time, compared with 34 percent for the traditional "strait-laced."
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001390.html
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/May/01/il/FP605010307.html
http://www.iscribe.org/english/spell.html
Something i saw on Channel 7 News today. It's about common phrases using homonyms and such. Phrases like "martial law" which people have begun spelling "marshall law." Instead of correcting them, they are just making both correct and acceptable. This is wrong.
I feel as badly about this as i did when i was a child in church and they altered the phrase "keep us free from all anxiety" to be "keep us free from all needless worry." The way people learn is by hearing something they haven't heard before. If you read a word you dont know, you should look it up. Not piss, moan, and be a lazy cunt because no one spelled it out for you. Become more intelligent! Improve yourself! Read a book! Look in a fucking dictionary! Learn how to use context clues! It is absolutely ridiculous that half our nation is writing "vocal chords," let alone that no one is correcting them. But changing the rules to make them correct? That is terrible.
Common Mistakes:
martial law: marshall law
rein(s): reign(s)
home: hone
hone: home
bated breath: baited breath
toe the line: tow the line
to the manner born: to the manor born
poring over a document: pouring over a document
exorcizing demons: exercising demons
farther: further
further:farther
Many traditional phrases are giving way to alternative terms, the project found. While "free rein" is still used in 54 percent of references, "free reign" now accounts for 46 percent of usage. The term "vocal cords" beats "vocal chords" by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent.
"We don't make any value judgment about spelling," said Soanes. "Spelling has never been fixed. It's always been changing. We have this historical feeling that 'free reign' is wrong, but we're seeing 46 percent doing it. 'Free reign' is not going into the dictionary yet, but it may one day take a variant place in the dictionary."
The increased popularity of "free reign" and "vocal chords" probably starts with people making familiar connections. "People don't ride horses nowadays, but they're familiar with a queen's reign," Soanes said. "It's the same with 'vocal chord.' People know a 'chord' in music, and make the connection."
In some cases, newer variations have entered the Oxford dictionaries, including "straight-laced," which is now used 66 percent of the time, compared with 34 percent for the traditional "strait-laced."
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001390.html
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/May/01/il/FP605010307.html
http://www.iscribe.org/english/spell.html