Subject: comfort ye, my peepul
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 03:16:31 GMT
‘...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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