re a recent thread

[S.R. Prozak]

A more mature outlook is that real diversity is only empowered by letting each group have their own way, within their own group.

Time to break up America ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:07:37 -0800 (PST)
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: re a recent thread

> http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={11764CDF-7EAC-46C8-AFB5-372D5A511475}
> 
> " [...] Language bullying -- or prescriptivism, as
> it's more politely called -- is conservative in the
> worst sense. It advances a stuffy and old-fashioned
> view of language, the rules of which it considers set
> by supposed experts, such as the authors of grammar
> books, rather than common usage. It is deeply
> anti-populist and snobby, not to mention just plain
> wrong and cranky. There are good reasons to criticize
> Bush. But holding his -- or anyone else's -- grammar
> to dubious standards isn't one of them. [...] Language
> bullies have a bloody-minded and literal understanding
> of how speech works. [...] But worst of all is the
> constant abuse that is hurled at the non-standard
> English of blacks and other groups, as when an old
> Mississippi Delta blues singer howls, "I can't get no
> lovin'." That's a double negative, bullies say, so
> it's wrong. [...] "
> 
> 
> ....Now, no need for anybody to go nucular about this,
> or, heaven forbid that other favorite Bush pastime,
> ballistic...
> 
> 
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