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In New York I overheard a young girl on the phone say. "Girl you do not know not nothin about nothin no how" I'm still not sure whether her friend knew anything or not.

I'm with Orwell. The corruption and misuse of language is a type of 'doublethink newspeak' which obscures truth and makes the unpalatable palatable. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm If you don't know what your words are saying, then how do you know what you're really...

chopping wood: 'When I nod my head, you hit it." I always giggle at that one. and there's one attributed to Winston Churchill, on the convulutions required to follow some supposed rules of grammar: 'That is the type of language up with which I will not put'. Or as W. Bush once...

I'm in complete agreeance that in one foul swoop the english language has been disincentivized completely. I never seized to be amazed at the frutility of people speaking beyond their station although I do understand that we should avoid cliches like the plague and the measure of the man is...