[Peace-discuss] Straining at a gnat... and linguistic reaction

[Ricky Baldwin]

It's also a particularly ignorant proscription liguistically. 
Languages change.  Always.  They never even stop.  And all the academic
conservatism in the world can't stop it.

Ricky

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [Kennedy was a statist reactionary, proclaiming in this speech a new
> American
> fascism, in pursuit of which he spread murder and destruction from
> Latin
> America to SE Asia -- resulting in the deaths of, among others, some
> four
> million people in Asia.  Now he's a liberal paragon ("Obama's just
> like JFK!"),
> so all this popular historian can find to deplore is interference
> with his
> syntactical structures...  --CGE]
> 
> 	David McCullough urges BC grads to speak properly
> 	May 19, 3:33 PM (ET)
> 
> NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough
> has a
> suggestion for what young people can do for their country.
> "Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems
> increasingly
> rampant among your generation," McCullough implored Boston College's
> class of
> 2008 at commencement ceremonies Monday.
> He said he's particularly troubled by the "relentless, wearisome use
> of words"
> such as like, awesome and actually.
> "Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said,
> 'Ask not
> what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like,
> do for your
> country actually," he said.
> Graduates apparently thought his speech was, like, awesome. They gave
> him a
> standing ovation.
> 
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