Topic: Reading Trump tweets strangely feels like reading Syntax posts.
+Anonymous A — 8.8 years ago #48,923
They both must have had the same English teachers.
+Anonymous B — 8.8 years ago, 12 minutes later[T] [B] #530,201
They both grew up in the 70's and 80's when the worship of the quintessential business personality was at its height. Meaning they both grew up in an environment that was too fast paced for proper discourse and where they had to deal with the lowest common denominator as business is inherently non-intellectual. So their form of communication favors short messages that always seem to be subtly bragging. They're trying to impress the lower classes by trying to seem intellectual when they're really just rambling. i.e Bert will believe that syntax is an astronaut and other dumb lies.
The cost comes, however, in the form of linguistical degradation. It's readily apparent in both Trump's and Syntax posts that they've started losing out the short and simple for the longwinded and stupid and utterly bizarre.
The cost comes, however, in the form of linguistical degradation. It's readily apparent in both Trump's and Syntax posts that they've started losing out the short and simple for the longwinded and stupid and utterly bizarre.
+Anonymous C — 8.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 13 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #530,202
@previous (B)
exactly
they both are larpers, but in Syntax case it's even sadder because he's a 75 year old man that tries to impress teens with ridiculous tall tales
exactly
they both are larpers, but in Syntax case it's even sadder because he's a 75 year old man that tries to impress teens with ridiculous tall tales
·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.8 years ago, 21 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #530,203
+Syntax — 8.8 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,213
·Syntax — 8.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,214
The Rules of Grammar"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules
"Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar."
"The Queen's English"
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."
"SPELLING"
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
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+Anonymous E — 8.8 years ago, 24 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,217
+Anonymous F — 8.8 years ago, 28 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,220
They both trained in Russia under the guidance of the Kremlin, over time they picked up a sort of curt and choppy style of English that's peppered with inane rambling that goes nowhere to misdirect their audience. Classic KGB training.
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