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[rsallen]

As there's a few here that find the op so funny, clue me in what's the joke?

 

[LJH]

As there's a few here that find the op so funny, clue me in what's the joke?

Good grief, my intention was simply to share something I found amusing, not to stir up a major shirtstorm.

I thought it was a classy come-back from the marine to an arrogant, ungrateful and ill-educated little twit who most likely isn't fit to shine his boots. That's all I've got for clues, sorry. :confused3:

 

[rsallen]

My page does not display any come back or link for the replies to the twits' op, it just shows her stupid assertion.

 

[LJH]

There is no link, it's just a screenshot that was forwarded to me from friend.

 

[smstonypoint]

English is a complicated language and as such it's sublties are often hard to grasp without copious amounts of study and desire to know what is correct. Consequently, we have today the "dumbing down" mentality and the subsequent results of things like texting where everything is boiled down to the lowest form of 'language'. I refuse to accept this as my own 'speech pattern', but others are free to choose, or settle for this mindless means of 'communication'. Unfortunately, it also leaves a lot to misinterpretation and confusion over what one actually means, in both texting and in written form, like on these forums, due to misuse of the spelling of various critical words and misuse of phrasing, grammar, etc. What I'm saying is we can either accept this as the way it is or choose a higher standard that maintains the known to be correct use of the English language.

I agree with your sentiments, and so would Dr. Johnson (1709 - 1784).

"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote."

"Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles of knowledge, they produce error, dissension, and perplexity, because what is affirmed in one sense is received in another."

"Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy, and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence, if they are conveyed by words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, debased by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant applications."

"If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? it remains that we ****** what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language."

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Language