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Listening to the Neil Roger's Show (560 AM - South Florida) the other day I couldn't help feeling a bit puzzled, as a foreigner who took the time to learn the English language properly. He corrected a journalist of a column he was reading on air, in where he believed the writer mistakenly wrote "he and I", when he should have written,"me and him".
What a dumb mistake for someone whose first (and only) language is English, but here is where I realized that the bastardization of proper English, along with pidgins, creoles, and colloquial slang - not to mention, the popularity of hip-hop - will always stand in the way of a unified planet. So, Birch Society members and watchdogs of ZOG need not worry. While they may plot against you, they will never conquer y'all.
Why?
Because deep down inside we are all tribalist. We congregate around those who we resemble most, whether in looks or in spirit. And to that effect we structure our language in tiers of nationality (example: English), providence of nationality (accent or dialect), and on into social clique (slang). We even do it at work and play, as business talk differs from shootin' the shit with pals.
A similar theory was deduced by Jared Diamond during his studies in Paupa New Guinea, and further explained in his book "The Third Chimpanzee".
Language changes when introduced into new cultures and is often morphed to include words and phrases from the usurped language. Same goes for different generations, as one tyme yonder English was shewed on papyr to be written as such a ways.
Though ancient, most of you cats dug what I just etched up there, so as fixin' to learn that it ain't so much da words, new-o-ol', but they's tru meaning - or at least, the meaning applied by the user.
Every era has its popular phrases that still mean something today - "caught red handed", "tow the company line" and "skid row" are all from the 1800's and are still used. Yet you hear no one repeating, "there he goes with his eye out", "has your mother sold her mangle?" or "hookey walker", though all are from the same century.
In the early 1800's, England was struck with a peculiar phrase, which no writer seems to know where it stemmed from, or where it was first used or uttered. A monosyllabic response to whatever the question asked, which soon upset the well-to-do, believing it to be a vulgar word only street people would use. The more upset aristocrats became at the use of this word, the more it was shouted in the streets at everyone.
What are you looking at?... Quoz!
Would you help me carry these bags?... Quoz!
Do you not believe me?... Quoz!
Quoted in "Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay, this simple, undefined word introduced itself, and was grown tired-of so quickly, the English speaking world decided never to repeat stupid, one-word catchphrases again. ... Not!
Curently creating greater problems in our communication, in the last millennia (the 1980's to early 90's), language was high-jacked to sell images. Whether political or social, words were used (or omitted) to convey dogma, distort vision, and blend the lines between good and evil (both sell, you know).
Republicans= hard-ass, anti-intellectual, money-grubbing. Democrat= over-sexed, bleeding-heart, tax-lover.
White= redneck chic. Black= gangsta cool.
Seriously, would you have bought an NWA record if they reminded all in their bio that Dr. Dre danced around in sequin-jumpsuits in a disco band, and Ice Cube was an architecture grad from Arizona's Institute of Technology? Ghetto? Ha - both members' parents worked at UCLA, so original gangstas they izzn't, fashizzn't.
Today, the meanings behind our language are no longer just high-jacked to simply sell an image, but now to sell product.
In an extreme example we have findhealers.com's Holistic Health Encyclopedia, who completely morph old cliches to suit their products, making claims that "snake oil salesman" was a term used for those that sold Chinese snake water. And guess what? They happen to carry some.
Did you know that "sowing one's wild oats" was coined because oat extract has EPA, which pumps up testosterone? Who cares? Cuz, you can purchase large quantities by clicking the "buy now" button under their definition.
We are quite lucky to live in a world where misinformation can lead to such convenient shopping.
Language as a social praxis of affect and force - this is one of the many examples of Jean Jacques Lecercle's "Violence of Language", where he puts forth the dichotomy between inner speech (subjectivity) and language as an external system.
We are constantly being bombarded with abusive speech, you assholes!
Well, no problem for me... I'm always down for a fight, so get used to the mutting-up of your tongue, Corporate Imperialists.
It probably doesn't matter much. Most of you can't understand what the hell I write anyway.
- Adel
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