On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:08:53 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
> On 7/31/2015 12:55 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:46:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 11:45:52 AM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
> >>> On 7/31/2015 4:30 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:16:13 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
> >>>>> On 7/30/2015 3:12 PM, Bruce wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Isn't cilantro a herb?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The proper pronoun is "an" herb...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a's and h's doncha know...
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you say "an horse"?
> >>>
> >>> No.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>
> >>> I say "an Historical event."
> >>
> >> That sounds hopelessly stilted to my 21st Century ears,
> >> even taking into account my use of words like forfend.
> >>
> >
> > http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/wo...historic-event
>
> Which presupposes that there has been some measurable advancement made
> in elocution from the 19th century to this dim day.
>
> By all measures and through all literature past and present, the sole
> thing we have done is degrade the spoken and written word to the point
> of near phonetic morbidity.
>
> Put another way, ask yourself would you rather hear a Richard Burton
> soliloquy, or the garbled phonetic polyglot that passes for 'expressive'
> in pop culture today.
>
> It will be an historic event when or if mankind returns to anything less
> ebonic than the contraction-laden word stew we eagerly serve up upon the
> simplest of interrogatories.
>
> I give you then, 'shit on a shingle' - a culinary metaphor for the
> richly textured and nuanced dish our language is not now and may never
> be again.
>
> My .02c

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Cindy Hamilton