̶L̶a̶b̶o̶r̶ ----------------- LABOUR (…not ennui through laying around)
̶F̶a̶n̶t̶a̶s̶i̶z̶e̶ ------------ FANTASISE (…not the volume of a super-sized, high fructose soda)
̶F̶e̶t̶u̶s̶ ---------------- FOETUS (…not the state or condition of something)
̶S̶u̶l̶f̶u̶r̶ ---------------- SULPHUR (…not the they way your pet looks after it rolls in mud)
̶D̶i̶a̶r̶r̶h̶e̶a̶ ------------- DIARRHOEA (…not duplicit rhetoric)
̶P̶e̶d̶o̶p̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ----------- PAEDOPHILE (…not foot fetishism)
̶C̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ---- COULDN’T (NOT) CARE LESS (…ummm… what?)
̶B̶a̶s̶t̶a̶r̶d̶i̶z̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ------ …just …just …no.
It’s one thing to give the ‘handicapped’ a “Common Core” leg-up in order to bring them up to speed with wider society. It’s an entirely different issue to undermine the fundamentals of a language just to cosset the plebeian masses, who seemingly cannot fashion the neural pathways required to remember a few, facile spelling rules.
This continuous dilution of the English language by the Sound-it-out Brigade, is a slippery slope towards the destruction of the core tenets of the tongue. This laissez-faire apathy regarding the integrity of the language, invariable leads to the “alot”, “bigly”, “wont”, “alright”, “hugely” et al. cancerous neologisitic phenomena that, through sheer weight of hoi polloi usage, can even influence linguistics itself – with dictionaries incorporating some of these patently misspelt and often unintelligible terms.
English is not the conjugation convoluted and superfluously lettered French language; nor is it the arcane, multitudinous runic, chinois communication method of Mandarin. English is actually a very facile language to learn – albeit difficult to master. As such, there is no rational reasoning behind this systematic dumbing down of the language, all for little more than to indulge the very demographic whose existence undermines it. To use a du jour analogy (and another Gallicism!), it’s tantamount to allowing the unvetted flooding of one’s society by incompatible foreign cultures and ideologies, and then standing around, scratching one’s noggin, bemused as to why these introduced, unassimilated alloys result in the degradation of that which took generations to refine! Counter-intuitive and self-defeating, to a tee.
Availing the French as an example once more; the French language attracts actual legislation which serves to protect its fundamentals from the nefarious ‘infection’ of such broached numbskull neologia. Why is it good enough for the French to cherish their diction, but not for the English-speaking world? Why can the French augur the very real dangers inherent in the unfettered dissemination of information the Internet Age entails, yet ‘we’ seem utterly blind to it? Is this also why our governments’ most sensitive secrets are being hacked as I type…(?) (*rhetorical)
Conspiracy time (*the inculcated and inured can stop reading here):
This process of pandering to the lowest common denominator is not exclusive to the field of language. Look at what has been taking place in the film industry – mindless rehashes and derivative dross, being the industry cash cow/s; video games – a pale, infantile, indulgent, glorified CGI schlock shadow of what the pastime once asked of its partakers; music – heard-today / forgotten-tomorrow, two-tone dimwitted ditties with lyrics spanning infantile to disconnect-the-EEG brain-dead… and then comes rap retches:smack:; news media – dog-wagged and simpleton supplicating, oftentimes barely discernible from ‘celebrity news’ faeces; food – the diabolical “fat” scapegoated for everything that ails us… despite the ridiculous incongruity of every product being “99.9% fat-free”, yet the [First] world waddling about in the most obscenely obese state it’s ever been; politics – the usurpation of the very Acolytes of the Asinine that the aforementioned factors (et al.) have conspired to raise from Saruman’s Uruk Hai bilge pits; religion – acceptance of the carnivorously coöpting of science, while simultaneously decry / denying its propositions and, worse yet, vesting itself in notions of “race” and “culture”, in order to afford inane ideology the protections the latter traits duly attract… et cœtera, et cœtera, et cœtera, (-King Mongkut of Siam)
Thus, I arrive at my to my “red pill” contention: This richly woven tapestry of ubiquitous dumbing down, pervading all sectors of human society, cannot be pure coincidence (-William of Ockham). This correlation between what one consumes and the product that is barfed up at the end of the process, is not without interplay. We are what we eat, and we have been fed tripe at every “God”-thanked meal, for time immemorial. As such, is it any wonder we are on the cusp of ticking over to ‘12’ on the Doomsday Clock…? :dubious:
Something’s definitely not quite right here, and my Spidey senses are tingling, something orgasmic, leading me in a beeline direction of this manifestly Machiavellian subterfuge helming from somewhere in the vicinity of the pernicious poisoning of our language…
