"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
(Note the date of recording.)
I think I’ll go with innumerate twit:
See? I told y’all not to trust that so-called “birth certificate”. Even The Zero (inadvertently) admits it’s hinky. (A guy who has created such a big fuss about the issue but doesn’t even know when he was born–or worse, when he IS NOW–is incompetent to manage his own affairs, let alone be president of a garden club. Just sayin’… )
*heh*
How I learned the difference between “ufda” and “feeda”… *heh*
Summer of 1978, coming out of a theater in MN (was a showing of Grease) into bright light. Two guys ahead of us. One pointed to some gum on the ground in warning with an “Ufda!” The other guy stepped in it anyway, lifted his foot and looked at it, then exclaimed, “Feeda!”
So (whatever “it” is *cough*), it’s “ufda” if you see it and “feeda” if you step in it.
Every time I see The Zero, I think, “Feeda!”
from the litter of our post-literate society:
“suaree”
While I admire creativity and good story telling, and I appreciate folks who put themselves and their work on the line, online, it does bother me a bit when I see repeated examples of this sort of evidence of a lack of literacy in someone who’s offering up an otherwise rollicking read. It’s not a typical misspelled word, and it’s certainly not a typo. No, it’s a word the author has heard but is not well read enough to ever have seen in print before (or at least not in something written by someone else who’s literate enough to know the word is “soiree“).
Oh, one example of such a thing is certainly not enough to bother me, or at least not enough to keep me from reading an otherwise well-told tale, and, frankly, in an unedited rough draft I’m more than willing to accept more than a few such problematic and weird spellings and even word usage errors (although instances of such things as the repeated use of “then” for “than” really grate [“greatly” *heh*] on my nerves *sigh*) in otherwise good yarns. Still, I wonder how such a person managed to get through high school or even eighth grade English… until I reconsider the state of pubschool education in these (dys)United States.
Oh, well. It takes a bit more work, but copy-pasting forum-published “fun-fic” into a file I can edit for grammar, usage and spelling corrections isn’t all that difficult. Really. *heh*
OTOH, when I read such things in a book that’s actually been through the eyes of proof readers and an editor and then made it to print, I do get a tad steamed.
In case you’d missed it, I do NOT accept “can laboriously decipher and sound out weird heiroglyphs” as “literacy” even though that seems to be the current “edumacational” definition…
Here’s why:
Yeh, yeh, the house is mostly cool, but I spent some time this afternoon doing some electrical work in some areas w/o AC, and I’m wrung out, so no stoves or ovens for me tonight. 😉
…and of course the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemnd is in full “duck and cover” mode on this.
Translation: “Nah, I don’t want actually to raise taxes enough to kill whatever jobs are left until after you fools re-elect me.”
To quote the best response to The Zero’s comment,
[audio: What-a-maroon.mp3]…if it’s about time to have Son&Heir certified as a complete loony. He just came into the room grinning, bearing his most recent purchases: a pound bag of habanero powder and a full KILO bagful of Bhut Jolokia (“ghost pepper”) powder.
Sometimes I wonder about him…
*heh*
I’ll say this for him. He seems to have a stainless steel stomach. But the trip down there…
Oops. Spoke too soon…
At least there’s a “breeze”. *heh*
(All work, chores, etc., from 10:00 a.m. on today have been inside.)
Enjoying two blessings this Sunday A.M. One is a “junk save” from Lovely Daughter and Her Undaunted Husband’s garage. I’d seen a 5+1 speaker set sitting around in various stages of storage for the past couple of years (began working on the house a little more than 2 years ago; just lil fiddly things left). Asked him when they were going to hook it up and was told it was supposed to have been given to a thrift shop some time ago & did I want it? Well, yeh. Came with a 5-DVD/CD player/AM-FM tuner/HTC box. No remote, so most functions unavailable, but who really cares?
So, listening to
It’s the most unusually good “Christmas” album I have, a present from my Wonder Woman a couple of Christmases back. When I started this post, was listening to The Wexford Carol: Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Allison Kraus (vocal), Natalie MacMaster (fiddle), Cristina Pato (bagpipes!), Shane Shanahan (percussion).
At several places on the CD, different variations on one of the best tunes ever (EVER) written, Dona Nobis Pacem, are featured.
Joyous stuff, indeed. 🙂
Oh, “Listening to Xmas music?!?” Yeh. What’s it to you?
😉
(And, as I said, it IS an unusual Xmas album. Some songs one might not normally associate with Xmas, but I see the connections.)
