The narrowing of vocabulary

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> No and yes.


Sigh! Ain't *that* a bitch?

I hate it when *my* knowledge is rendered empty of content by other
people's ignorance. (FYI, "other people's ignorance" is based upon the
BE phrase, "other people's children" - or "OPC" - used to down  others
with whose actions one is not in agreement. Gnome sane?)

Yeah, yeah. I know. Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and others
better-known than I no doubt had that same feeling, WRT to the
language-change going on around them in their respective days. But I
learned that a square and an oblong were varieties of rectangle in the
first grade.

As Dave Chappelle would put it:

"In the FIRST GRADE, niggaz! IN THE FIRST GRADE!!!"

Our teacher gave us each cardboard cut-outs and then rapped to us what
we needed to know.

And now that knowledge is worthless. :-(

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain
[Mark, baby, you stone *saying* a taste!]

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