INCOMING RANT

[rocknload]

You know what's better about speaking in grammatically correct English? JACK FUCKING SHIT. That's right! There is absolutely nothing better about the language you learn to speak in school and in fact, most of those rules were totally arbitrarily decided on a few hundred years ago to make our written language more closely resemble Latin, which makes no sense at all. It makes about as much sense as Japanese being written with freaking Chinese character, which makes no sense at all! But that's another rant. There's nothing wrong with the way the youth of today speak. If it annoys you, that's actually more due to your class bias or other prejudices than anything else! Also? Text message abbreviations and other Internet slang are exactly as legitimate as formal written English. It's true!

ENGLISH IS IN NO DANGER

A DIALECT IS NEVER A "WRONG" OR "BAD" WAY TO SPEAK

AN EDUCATION DOES NOT MAKE YOU SMARTER

AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH SAYING "I COULD CARE LESS"

Not my opinions! This is science. If you disagree with me, you are TOTALLY REALLY SUPER DOUBLE-PLUS WRONG WRONG WROOOOOOONG.

this may have been brought to you by a class i just got out of. maybe.

Comments

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

I... think I love you for this. Because as much as it bugs me when people spell "breathe" as "breath" and other things like that, I think the SERIOUS BUSINESS people are starting to get on my nerves even more. :/

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people do make errors, but geez, it's not a sign that they're HAHA STUPID or anything like that. Self-proclaimed "Grammar Nazis" make me want to like, punch them in the face, man.

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Punch some of my F-list.

PLEASE.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

CAN I DO IT THROUGH THE INTERNET

[unicorn]

Sorry, saying "I could care less" will bother me forever. I figure I pay my dues to science on that one by wanting to stick my hands into cow intestines.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

SCIENCE IS CRYING FOR YOU, IT'S CRYING RIGHT NOW

but this is more directed at those who enjoy pedantically correcting people and/or feeling smugly superior over people who talk differently. because god knows there's plenty of phrases that drive me nuts, like OVER-EXAGGERATE, ugh.

[unicorn]

well irregardless

[parcus.livejournal.com]

THIS OH MY GOD

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

i had to take a intro to linguistics class today and one of the questions was "Language tends to be corrupted as it passes from one generation to the next, true or false?" LOTS OF PEOPLE WROTE TRUE.

lots of people also thought Japanese and Chinese were related, too.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

corrupted or just new vernacular added?

they kind of are? if you think about the kanji - but they are in no means related in speaking terms ...

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

the word was CORRUPTED, as in MADE WORSE.

in linguistics "genetically related" means they are descendants of each other or another common language or et cetera, and it's speaking that really counts. although I hate the term genetically related when it comes to languages because languages DO NOT HAVE GENES, but that's me being pedantic, there.

also, this is a linguistics class, so I was sort of blown away that people didn't know this stuff.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

I AM ONLY A HUMBLE ECON MAJOR, ALL YOU JUST SAID JUST WENT OVER MY HEAD.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

BASICALLY THEY DRAW FAMILY TREES FOR LANGUAGES LIKE:

LATIN

SPANISH FRENCH ITALIAN

PORTUGUESE

IF I COULD DRAW LINES IT'D BE CLEARER, but basically Spanish French and Italian all came from Latin, and likewise Portuguese used to be Spanish. Anyhow their relatedness is why all those languages are called Romance languages, it doesn't have anything to do with them sounding ~romantic~. BUT ANYWAY CHINESE AND JAPANESE ARE FROM TOTALLY DIFFERENT FAMILIES.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

OH THAT. yes this i agree with.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

Also. Learn Sanskirt so that I may learn the language of my peoples.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm pretty sure the language of your people is, uh, dead.

[parcus.livejournal.com]

8((((

[raetehytan.livejournal.com]

While I agree with you on the rest, "I could care less" is just wrong. That means the opposite of what the person is trying to say, and they're just fucking up the phrase out of ignorance.

SORRY BB

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Nah. "I could care less" actually has a measurable infection different from "I couldn't care less," indicating that the phrase originated out of sarcasm, and anyway English had tons of idiomatic expressions that do not literally correlate to the meanings. Basically if thousands of people use the phrase regularly and it's parsed as being correct in their own mental grammar, then it is in fact correct.

[raetehytan.livejournal.com]

If you say so! Still bothers the shit out of me.

[maxiboom.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING MY PURSUITS. Of being grammatically incorrect. Active, active pursuits.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

WELL LINGUISTICALLY SPEAKING I DOUBT YOU ARE BEING GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT. As far as linguists are concerned grammar is actually the part of your brain that generates languages. So whatever scans as being correct to you is actually correct.

[technobubblegum.livejournal.com]

Text message abbreviations are often annoying, actually. But other than that, trufax.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

They might be annoying, but there's nothing dumb or stupid about them. There's not even anything that makes them less of a legitimate writing system than standard English.

[technobubblegum.livejournal.com]

True, I guess.

[technobubblegum.livejournal.com]

also no one can take my sentence fragments away from meeeeee