Goodbye Brains
I want to mention something and get your take. I do a lot of business...meaning - I work a lot, rely on a lot of different people to work with me. This is above and beyond the waiter we all deal with who screws up our order, and the accountant who fills out the forms wrong, etc. Over the past few years I have noticed that almost nobody does their job right anymore. I actually wonder if people are just getting dumbed down, poisoned by something in the water, generally just pissed off, or if there's something else going on. I work with another business our office has done work with for several years. As I'm learning what this office does I'm now forced to ask them, "What do you do for us?" Because, it appears that they don't do anything. They just have a contract with us (that I'm requesting today so I can read it). I mean...I actually find business arrangements like that which have just degraded into nothingness (with nobody able to say why). Hard to explain (as I just have a few minutes and need to jet). But, in the professional world and general public I'm seeing this mass incompetence. What the hell is going on? Anybody else see this?
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To get the education she provided her high school students back then would take a Masters Degree now IF such a curriculum were available.
Given your comment that and a result of her work called the Poet's Pack should be of interest.
Remember that when you try to quote your non-existent Constitution and I laugh at you. Or as did happen someone says it's a forgery because they failed to learn proper punctuation. Iis even now using it to legitimize changes in the Constitution.
So dangle your participle and when it's chopped off ...don't come complaining to me.
You are getting what you deserve.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/...
used to backup secular progressives use of ACLU to make constitutional changes in the courts and without amendments and quoted in George Lakoff's hand book for the advancement of Secular Progressivism.
All because Professor Allen failed to apply one conceivable angle...that of punctuation and grammar. All because people think the language is unimportant. Cost you the Bill of Rights so far...
It took me fifteen minutes to correctly identify the source of her complaint ..It will take Danielle Allen a lifetime and she will still be a dangling participle of a failed education system.
I'll give you fifteen minutes to identify the problem and the solution or what the helll take an hour or a day or two.
You sure you aren't confusing it with a particle? You know, those tiny parts of atoms that scientists say everything is made from? Sometimes I think they just make that stuff up in order to get it to fit their math.
Sorry if I don't write up to your standards. However, I have been published, been a publisher and editor. I'm afraid that I don't understand your use of "non-conceptual." Everything must be conceptual or it is just gibberish. Since most people seem to understand what I write, there must be a concept of some sort hidden there somewhere. Perhaps the subject? I'm trying to sew your comments together in order to understand them. Are you implying that I somehow violated cause and effect? I understand your school experience as it was quite a bit like mine.
One of the results of WW II was that the US was one of the few manufacturing centers still left in the world - which is why the 50's and 60's were so prosperous for us. But after that initial startup period was over and all our generosity to other nations got them back to providing not only for themselves but manufacturing for the world, their newer plants, technology, and processes quickly put US manufacturing at a distinct disadvantage. The steel mills are the quintessential example. Most of our steel mills were built in the run-up to WW II and used extensive, megalithic footprints and processes. The Japanese (and many others) rebuilt in the 50's using mini-mills, which had a smaller footprint (lower overhead) and could turn out steel of very high quality quickly.
It's in areas like this that I think there is a case for government to go to businesses to offer them guarantees to rebuild a critical manufacturing industry like steel. There is just simply too much initial capital outlay involved and steel production is too critical to too many industries. Our primary sources for steel now are overseas. Can you imagine how construction would grind to a halt if we got into a major war?
Labor as we might the use of that which I rail against seems to pop out in moments of, usually, late night sessions when the brain is tired and the fingers work as if on auto pilot. Muscle memory has a mind of it's own.
Think declares a state of hesitation in the value of the observation. Believe is a much stronger and based on personal ability to examine the value of something. Know - although much misused as if it were of no value - is a positive word and a strong one. "You know" is slang and implies the second person with an ability that may or may not be true. Worse is 'You know what I meant or mean with out a question mark."
Feel completely free to treat me the same. I probably deserve it although it's in the interest of accuracy and not pedantic EXCEPT when it's humor!!!!! All the above relates to Maritimus comment not Abaco and I would hate to cross verbal swords with DHalling or MMarotta. Both of whom have yet to confuse clip with magazine.
I learned traditional English the diagrammed sentence led from left to right. I don't give a fig about what followed. I do adjectived and adverbs not modifiers and intensifiers whatever the hell those are.
It is my job to learn definitions. If you don't use a real dictionary meaning tough. I will interpret what you or anyone else wrote and react to it in pre PC English. It's not my job to memorize thirty million different other versions. If it doesn't come across as intended I can always check to see if there were meanings 2, 3,4, If not....tough.
I don't do reality tv definitions, I don't do definititons of the so called news casters none of that. I don't do pop illliteracci or glitteratti.
If you tell me I suck I punch you out. Plain and simple. And that has happened.
I have a rather large vocabulary and still use a dictionary. It taught me that the redefiniiton goes back fruther than I thought. such as is common with liberal, conservative socialist and capitalist and decimate.
Consequently I have taken a page from non grammatical of Mr. Lenin and the current crop of leftists. I don't use their definitions at all.
When I say left wing extremists I am referring to both the national and international version of socialism.
When I say center I mean the Constitution not the center of the left.
when i say left I include the Republican party as the right wing OF the left
It's the only way I've found to make any sense of it.
If you don't like it ...I do not care.
If you dangle a participle I conclude you forgot to finish the pancake and wonder was it boxers or briefs? Obviously if you didn't care then ....why should I?
Is this a conservastive of a liberal failing? BOTH. For none of you use those words with any discernible meaning either. ...Very few. perhaps three...
I made my comment before I saw above that in a previous life you were a publisher. I had time to edit the original slight, but I let it stand so that we could have this conversation.
"Non-conceptual" would have been better than "anti-intellectual." Among the great insights provided by Ayn Rand was that an individual is the summation of their ideas. Most people, apparently, do not construct consistent systems of thought from examination and introspection. I could say, colloquially, that you have good instincts. Your heart is in the right place. But you are not a philosopher.
The physical law of cause-and-effect cannot be avoided. You complained that the writers who came to you could not tell a story. Worse, they could not communicate a coherent idea in a single sentence. I loved the semesters devoted to grammar, and suffered through the half-year of literature. The only exception was the 10th grade when the literature included more exposition, even technical writing. It was worth reading. It was as much fun as diagramming sentences. The ideas were crisp and certain. The points made were unarguable. You did not have to agree, but you knew what you were disagreeing about. The kids who came to you unable to write suffered from a lack of that in school. That was the point made by Sp_cebux. You dismissed it with a quip.
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