[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Oh, That Rush! He's Such A *Kidder!*

[Tammy Rizzo]

On 5 Oct 2003 at 4:09, Haggridd wrote:

> <long snip> This is as
> laughable-- and as sad-- as the Washington, D.C. city government
> official (an African-America, FWIW) who was forced to resign because
> he characterized a budget line item as "niggardly". Hs sin was not
> allowing for how the ignorant would misinterpret hs statement as using
> th "N-word".
> 
> Don't the actual, real words and the meanings that are attached to
> these words mean anything anymore, or is it only a matter of the
> political spin?
> 
> Haggridd

I think that it is a symptom of a society made up of ignorant people with a painfully limited 
vocabulary and nearly no understanding of syntax and grammar, since those were deemed, 
about twenty-five to thirty years ago, to be 'detrimental to the creative potential' of the children, 
and were accordingly dropped from the curriculum of most schools in the US.  As a result, we 
now have a public AND a media who can't tell the difference between a racial epithet and a 
word that means 'cheap', or can't tell what a person is actually speaking about if there's any of 
a myriad of politically hot catchphrases or bywords involved, or can't express themselves 
clearly and properly (and I don't mean 'politically correct' here, I mean describing their feelings 
using the best words for the job, instead of the best words' second cousins), or, if they ARE 
able to do so, their audience (for the most part) lacks the knowledge to understand.

I tell ya, it's enough to make me spit.

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Tammy
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