eye mist the announcement

[vaskidmark]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091304476.html

The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.

stay safe.

[Doggy Daddy]

Its definately getting too were theirs going to be nobody talking good english "anymore".  At the end of the day whee can only look foreward two a more ill literiate peoples of american talking peoples.

Dd

[280plus]

Say it ain't so! 

[Tallpine]

eye mist the announcement 

Oh, didst thou ?

[Harold Tuttle]

The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter. In so doing, however, the letter writer called the first couple the "Obama's." This, too, was published, constituting an illiterate proofreading of an illiterate criticism of an illiteracy. Moments later, already severely weakened, English died of shame.

Gene Weingarten, funny guy

[grampster]

UR so Rt.

[Harold Tuttle]

funny funny guy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904048.html

Fortunately, this new system enjoys the services of tens of thousands of fact-checking "citizen journalists" who write "comments." They will read the Uzbekistan story and instantly alert everyone that BARACK OBAMA IS A LIEING PIECE OF CRAP.

I basically like "comments," though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

[tyme]

[Lee]

Hmmm... I wonder why...lingua franca? Is that proper English or Italian?  Oh yes, the well heeled, well educated, must differentiate themselves from the unschooled masses.     

The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead.

Oh yes...that's why I read the newspaper...to learn from the linguistic authorities.

Signs of its failing health had been evident for some time on the pages of America's daily newspapers, the flexible yet linguistically authoritative forums through which the day-to-day state of the language has traditionally been measured.

 

[RoadKingLarry]

Lingua franca? what is that? A French pasta dish?

[Doggy Daddy]

Lingua franca? what is that? A French pasta dish?

I think it translates to "french fried tongue."

DD