Idiots, and all that
Feb. 19th, 2005 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swatkatI have been reading this old wank in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanficrants (it's long - summary is in F_W) for quite a while now, and I'm not sure what exactly it is that I want to do - laugh or hit her on the head with a volume of the OED. Both, probably. My favourite quote, though:So now you're saying that people go to college to Learn To Think? o_o
Also, I'm genuinely curious about this one - why do people insist on calling the English language 'not beautiful'? Of course, this idiot poster called French and Japanese 'pretty languages', but I've heard this from many sane, intelligent people as well. It is beautiful! Sure, it's 'harsh' and masculine and not melodious in the way, say, Sanskrit is, but it *is* a beautiful language. Why must you deride your mother tongue so?
fanficrants (it's long - summary is in F_W) for quite a while now, and I'm not sure what exactly it is that I want to do - laugh or hit her on the head with a volume of the OED. Both, probably. My favourite quote, though:So now you're saying that people go to college to Learn To Think? o_o Also, I'm genuinely curious about this one - why do people insist on calling the English language 'not beautiful'? Of course, this idiot poster called French and Japanese 'pretty languages', but I've heard this from many sane, intelligent people as well. It is beautiful! Sure, it's 'harsh' and masculine and not melodious in the way, say, Sanskrit is, but it *is* a beautiful language. Why must you deride your mother tongue so?
