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August 15, 2005
I think Copus stalks my blog
Less than 2 more weeks of work at Lexmark. For some reason I can't get some code to work and it's starting to drive me crazy. Too bad I can't tell you what it's for. Top secret stuff yeah blah.
Anyways tonite we had a intern dinner at this Mexican food place. It was yummy. Yay for food!
One of the girls there is a high school english teacher. I guess she's a friend of one of the other girls that works at Lexmark, otherwise I don't know why she would be there. Anyways that just reminds me of these silly english classes that everyone has to take growing up. Yeah they are useful up to a point, so that you are forced to read and write and communicate in written language, but then there's the extreme side where anything outside the established "rules" is considered WRONG and must be severely punished by any english teacher that catches you not conforming.
But then there's those authors or "artists" or whatever you want to call them that break the rules in their novels in order to be artsy or different or something, and just because they've been published that means it's OK for them to do that stuff I guess, or at least that's what english teachers seem to think anyways.
Oh and we can't forget those rappers with their newly-invented words which catch on, then sort of fade away and become commonplace as random references on nightly sitcoms.
So in my opinion, language is constantly evolving, and will continue to do so despite desperate attempts by english teachers to keep things nice and neat and always the same. Just a couple decades ago the language was different than it was today, and teachers' pens aren't going to stop the evolution of language. Such a futile attempt, and for what? I'm not really sure... maybe to preserve things to a certain point so 100 years from now everyone will still understand completely what was written today? Seems like a vain attempt to perserve their own thoughts and ideas throughout history.
Don't get me wrong though. Some structure and form is necessary to convey understanding and knowledge so the general public will understand, but evolution is inevitable. Keep trying though. Everyone needs to have a job doing something.
I bet Copus will comment about this on IM to me in the not-so-distant future. Stalker.
Posted by Plocmstart at August 15, 2005 9:33 PM
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