Subject: Re: comfort ye, my peepul
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 20:40:02 GMT
"Privileged," in this context, means you have resources or opportunities
that others don't have, but that's all right, because you feel terribly
guilty about it.
:)
Jim
Scottie Bowman wrote:
> ‘...my own improvement or that of the students I'm
> privileged to work with, English is changing. It's no
> longer a king's language. Democracy has taken English
> from the English people and made it more of a people's
> language ...’
>
> Puh-lease. The moment someone starts talking about
> a ‘people’s language’ all I can see is that wonderful
> ‘people’s car’, the Brabant which, in its millions & for
> so many decades, polluted the air of Eastern Europe
> with its nerve-grating racket & its stomach-turning smells.
> In any human endeavour, ‘the people’s’ this or ‘the people’s’
> that simply means the lowest common denominator.
>
> As your own blessed Abe pointed out: ‘You can fool
> the vast majority of the people more or less permanently.'
> They will continue to go baah-baah-baahing along the road –
> just as they have for the last ten millenia. And their thinking
> & writing will continue to be done for them by the usual tiny
> handful of kings & queens – of one dynasty or another.
>
> Do you really fell ‘privileged’, Will? PRIVILEGED?
> What the Huck does that mean?
>
> Scottie B.
>
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