We're taking the Gadsden Flag back! The right doesn't own it. It belongs to the people and we're taking it back!
BigNote
joined 2 years ago
100 percent agree. The world is disappointingly full of morons and idiots.
There's a Bertrand Russell quote to the effect that "the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and arrogant, while the intelligent are full of doubt."
No doubt I've botched the actual quote, but the point remains regardless.
Agreed. That said, what you're ultimately talking about is culture, of which language is only one among many aspects that impart meaning.
It's not as bad as people think. There are large numbers of black and Latino construction workers who aren't on board with Republican politics at all. My union is nearly a third Latino and they tend to be some of the most involved in organizing and activism. Also worth saying that less than half of the white guys are conservatives.
They turned me into a newt!
Well this got disappointingly stupid in no time at all. What I see here is something roughly like the same proportion of idiots as one would typically expect on Reddit.
All languages are like that. If you don't do something one way, you have to do it another. Basically if you sacrifice complexity in grammar, you have to make up for it in other ways through things like case, word-order, tone and register, etc. It's a popular myth that languages can be more or less complex than one another.
It's all of the above and then some. A good read on the subject is John McWhorter's "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue." It's intended for a non-technical/popular audience and doesn't get too deep into the weeds so you don't need a degree in linguistics to follow it.
I have the same rule for Gaelic.
If by "every other language" you mean "a handful of Indo-European languages, then sure.
Virtually all known languages do this, only some do it through the use of grammar.
This thread is full of bad linguistics.
We're taking the Gadsden Flag back. It was never theirs to begin with. US Soccer has been using it for decades, for example.