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This just in: People discuss retarded things
by Acidus at 12:17 am EDT, Mar 9, 2009 |
Easton isn't alone. There have been at least 18 recent tweets about the fact that English has no grammatically correct substitutes for words like "he," "him," and "his" that do not have a gender implied.
So the news story is, People on Twitter are venting about the English language. ... Ok, let me repeat that: The topic that qualifies for "news" on CNN, is that people are using Twitter to complain about things. [Lewis Black Voice]ARE YOU #@!$#@ing KIDDING ME!?!? Screw CNN, Screw twitter. There is nothing of value here. |
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RE: This just in: People discuss retarded things
by ubernoir at 1:09 pm EDT, Mar 9, 2009 |
Acidus wrote: Easton isn't alone. There have been at least 18 recent tweets about the fact that English has no grammatically correct substitutes for words like "he," "him," and "his" that do not have a gender implied.
So the news story is, People on Twitter are venting about the English language. ... Ok, let me repeat that: The topic that qualifies for "news" on CNN, is that people are using Twitter to complain about things. [Lewis Black Voice]ARE YOU #@!$#@ing KIDDING ME!?!? Screw CNN, Screw twitter. There is nothing of value here.
surely the article is discussing linguists and the twitter thing is a story hook |
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RE: This just in: People discuss retarded things
by Acidus at 6:15 pm EDT, Mar 9, 2009 |
ubernoir wrote: Acidus wrote: Easton isn't alone. There have been at least 18 recent tweets about the fact that English has no grammatically correct substitutes for words like "he," "him," and "his" that do not have a gender implied.
So the news story is, People on Twitter are venting about the English language. ... Ok, let me repeat that: The topic that qualifies for "news" on CNN, is that people are using Twitter to complain about things. [Lewis Black Voice]ARE YOU #@!$#@ing KIDDING ME!?!? Screw CNN, Screw twitter. There is nothing of value here.
surely the article is discussing linguists and the twitter thing is a story hook
True, but CNN is not in the habit of publishing stories about the arguments of linguists regardless of medium. |
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