Rather than grammar, I would argue with Jones, the casualty is meaning. Devaluation &
deracination & the lexicographical obsession with current usage have denatured the inherent
meaning of many good old words. I'm not being nostalgic when I lament the great loss of the
knowledge of words primitive speakers must've had. When there's a serious crisis over in
Busby on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation they don't call a cop or doctor or lawyer, they call in a speaker of the language who can be trusted to be a fair mediator simply on account of the fact
he or she knows a pure dialect. The words can be trusted to provide solutions & answers. Watching the
lies slither out of the mouths of these guys waging war on what it means to be human fills me
with exactly the kind of pig-sticking hatred I'm told I should feel when , say, I hear the Evil One.
Herodotus & Thuycidides both covered situations where the powers that be
twist the meaning of words to suit their own sinister ends. The result is madness& chaos. Try this simple
experiment at home: lie to a child. Tell me if I am not mad!
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deracination & the lexicographical obsession with current usage have denatured the inherent
meaning of many good old words. I'm not being nostalgic when I lament the great loss of the
knowledge of words primitive speakers must've had. When there's a serious crisis over in
Busby on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation they don't call a cop or doctor or lawyer, they call in a speaker of the language who can be trusted to be a fair mediator simply on account of the fact
he or she knows a pure dialect. The words can be trusted to provide solutions & answers. Watching the
lies slither out of the mouths of these guys waging war on what it means to be human fills me
with exactly the kind of pig-sticking hatred I'm told I should feel when , say, I hear the Evil One.
Herodotus & Thuycidides both covered situations where the powers that be
twist the meaning of words to suit their own sinister ends. The result is madness& chaos. Try this simple
experiment at home: lie to a child. Tell me if I am not mad!
- frank 1-04-2002 4:23 pm