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?
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Date: 2005-02-20 06:31 am (UTC)Oh, me too. I like the sounds of French and Spanish as well, but I don't find them particularly raveworthy (the way people go about them!). Maybe it's just my Indian, used-to-ten-million-different-languages ear, lol!
The "English is a stupid major" wank reminds me uncannily of the "Oh, but everyone speaks English nowadays" claims, which come up every now and then in my social circle (German university). Because, y'know, we all studied English at school and it's such an easy language to learn, cause it's got no declension and conjugation and stuff. Yeah.
Ours are a bit different. "English is the language of the Evol Colonials, and learning/speaking in the language is nothing but a 'colonial hangover'". Nevermind that without the language you'd have to learn at least ten different languages for elementary communication, or revert to sign language.
Swatkat