Speak English

Sun, 16 July 2006, 09:19 pm

Logos24 posts in thread

I know people are going to give me a hard time for this BUT what the hell has happened to the english language. The Brent Street thread is almost totally unintelligible (now I'm not sure that's right) a lot of the time and they are supposed to be being taught academic subjects as well as dance. In fact a great many posts on this site are grammatically awful and the spelling is atrocious. I know I'm not perfect but for God's sake. And don't tell me it's not as important as your skills, it is one of your skills. If you have no command of the language you speak how can you understand what you are saying or singing. You can't be a musician if you can't read music, how can you be an actor (in an english speaking country) if you can't use english. The words are used incorrectly and mispelled. I give up. I am considering moderating any posts I find with more than three or four spellling errors out of existence. (Just joking of course) and yes I am the grammer police.

Grammar

Tue, 18 July 2006, 03:06 pm

Logos

I shouldn't have brought up the split infinitive thing because it is a rule in English that got foisted on us about the time of Johnson (Samuel). It comes from Latin where it is physically impossible to split an infinitive so somebody decided that we shouldn't in English. And yes English is a growing and evolving language as it should be. Have you heard the story about what Charles 2nd said when he saw Wren's plans for St Pauls. He called it awefull (deliberate spelling) pompous and artificial. It was a compliment in those days meaning full of awe, inspiring pomp and a great work of artifice. And yes Labrug, I actually have little problem with shorthand of any kind be it precisionist or simply jargon in the environment where it belongs. You are correct the spread of this shorthand is corrupting the most versatile and fluid langauge in the world. Will it make it more fluid? I am afraid not. I believe it will drive the musical amd fluent language of Shakespeare into a corner until our descendants become semi literate barabarians. Boy, I'm really having a downer this week, I think I need to go and get drunk or something, it might cheer me up. Life's too short to stuff a mushroom www.tonymoore.id.au

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Speak English— Logos16 July 2006

Spelling— Logos16 July 2006
- mult-lingual— Walter Plinge19 July 2006
  - The tip of the point— Labrug19 July 2006
    - everything in its right place— Walter Plinge19 July 2006
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        My fourth attempt— Logos19 July 2006
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        Miissing the target— Labrug20 July 2006
  - I'm not sure who this— Na19 July 2006
    - the per centage of— Daniel Kershaw19 July 2006
Speaking American— Na17 July 2006
Language is the Art— Labrug17 July 2006
- And possibly the— Na17 July 2006
- Why blame the Internet?— Walter Plinge17 July 2006
  - Walter, our posts only— Na17 July 2006
  - Not the internet specifically— Labrug18 July 2006
    - Basically it's like the law— Na18 July 2006
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        Rapid Decline— Labrug18 July 2006
I Agree!— Rae Johnston17 July 2006
- I think if you were going— Na17 July 2006
Qualifications— Logos17 July 2006
- I totally agree Logos - no— Na18 July 2006
I don't really mind the US— Walter Plinge17 July 2006
Grammar— Logos18 July 2006
- A Pint and a Half— Labrug18 July 2006

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