On 7/31/2015 1:34 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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
>
Wow.

Yes.

Nailed it.