English is no danger of being "destroyed". People who complain about the coming death of English aren't usually talking about language; they're talking about something else (on the order of "And your music, it's just noise").I have to file that away for use in other fora...
Language Liberalism Freethought Birds Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time. The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church. If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
headsup on language rants
I've been reading the archives at headup the blog and came across splendid dissection of one of those "they're killing English!" columns. The whole post is excellent, but I particularly like this:
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