tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post3866291011699114430..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-4043046544623096492015-01-21T13:03:08.182-05:002015-01-21T13:03:08.182-05:00These are the online dictionaries I consult most f...These are the online dictionaries I consult most frequently. Of this group Collins English Dictionary is the least tainted by political correctness, but the others are perfectly good normal usage. <br /><br />Oxford Dictionaries<br />American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language<br />Collins English Dictionary <br />Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition <br />Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. <br /><br />Online dictionaries are a handy expedient, but I much prefer pre-1960's print editions of The American College Dictionary, the enormous old unabridged volumes we used to find in school and public libraries published by Merriam Webster, Funk and Wagnall, and such.<br /><br />Unfortunately, we have no access online to the OED unabridged or otherwise. I always wanted to own a copy of the pre-1960's OED unabridged, which I understand comes in many volumes, but Alas! the opportunity never arose. I would doubtless consider OLD editions of the OED to be the ultimate source for enhancing, enriching and refining one's vocabulary.<br /><br />I categorically reject anything that smacks of PC and Feminazi influence. Politicizing standard English terms in order to wrest control of young minds and bend them to suit an agenda is deplorable. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-72836942389124197162015-01-21T12:04:07.031-05:002015-01-21T12:04:07.031-05:00Most reference works once regarded as trustworthy ...Most reference works once regarded as trustworthy now in their newer editins reflect the deadly POISON of Political Correctness run amok, Jez.<br /><br /><b>I respect NOTHING and NO ONE defining him, her or itself as an "authority" since the madness of the SICK-sties cast its long dark shadow over the WEST</b>. <br /><br />All these efforts to vilify perfectly good, long-established terminology, add "inclusive language," and otherwise change the language to aid and abet leftist political initiatives is tendentious nonsense trumped up by would-be-tyrants in their naked attempt to dominate and control the culture.<br /><br /><b>So you may disagree all you like, but it won't stop me from continuing to understand that your poor young mind was conscripted and warped by Cultural Marxism from infancy -- whether YOU understand, and accept that or not.</b> <br /><br />Since the mid-1950's at least, Popular Culture is not -- and never has been -- mere "entertainment." Instead, it has for ever so long been an insidious form of INDOCTRINATION -- MASS HYPNOSIS.<br /><br />I'm sorry you had to one of its many hundreds of millions of innocent victims.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-77723059866573427932015-01-21T09:25:54.010-05:002015-01-21T09:25:54.010-05:00I accept the Oxford English Dictionary as authorit...I accept the Oxford English Dictionary as authoritative. Which dictionary do you prefer?jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-89632900617396089022015-01-21T05:23:19.949-05:002015-01-21T05:23:19.949-05:00Disagree about "perfectly respectable," ...Disagree about "perfectly respectable," FreeThinke. From the Oxford English:<br /><br />"since then [1960s], the term Negro (together with related terms such as Negress) has fallen from favour and is now typically regarded as out of date or even offensive in both British and American English."<br /><br />It notes that it is sometimes retained within proper nouns for consistency, but the linguistic authority (in matters of correctness, I defer to the OED) has marked "Negro" and related terms as deprecated.jeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71740954405043884982015-01-20T15:37:51.246-05:002015-01-20T15:37:51.246-05:00Yes, of course. Jersey. Negress may sound quaint t...Yes, of course. Jersey. Negress may sound quaint today, but it's a perfectly respectable term for a female Negro.<br /><br />Prince - Princess<br />Actor - Actress<br />Waiter - Waitress<br />Mayor - Mayoress<br />Master - Mistress<br /><br />Only leftists determined to wrest control of the language to implement their Power Agenda would want to relegate time-honored terms to a forbidden category. <br /><br />Boys are still boys, and girls are girls the last time I looked. The leftist determination to portray both sexes as though there were no appreciable difference between them is disorienting at best, inimical at worst.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-22640577589630758352015-01-20T12:46:23.121-05:002015-01-20T12:46:23.121-05:00"Negress" ? :|
JMJ"Negress" ? :|<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-17141666749891568872015-01-20T07:01:28.680-05:002015-01-20T07:01:28.680-05:00One of the saddest poems in American literature, I...One of the saddest poems in American literature, IMO.<br /><br />Family standards often operate for the good, but not always.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-61042715512812727052015-01-19T15:55:48.183-05:002015-01-19T15:55:48.183-05:00Keep THINKING, Kurt. I'm not going to explain ...Keep THINKING, Kurt. I'm not going to explain to anyone -- especially not you. Wasn't it you I was lecturing just the other day about the American public's increasing inability to draw inferences, understand allusions, see parallels, and comprehend figurative language?<br /><br />I'll give you one clue, however:<br /><br /><b>Maud Muller is NOT a charming vignette of pastoral life in the nineteenth century, nor is it a simple folk tale of two people who happen to encounter one another by the side of a country lane on a lovely summer afternoon.<br />The setting may seem bucolic, but the meaning has implications that apply to human interaction everywhere.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-13867408950728130772015-01-19T13:04:45.608-05:002015-01-19T13:04:45.608-05:00I think Walt Whitman had the 'young man' i...I think Walt Whitman had the 'young man' in bucolic setting covered already.<br /><br />Are you sure Whittier was lamenting the forgone interracial marriages and gay weddings? That's an interesting interpretation, and I don't begrudge you it, but it pretty much wrecked by simpleton's enjoyment of the poem.<br /><br />I am a live and let live guy, and I don't care who marries who, but why must everything today be agenda driven? Why must great men from the past be dragged out and repurposed to fit someone's modern agenda?<br /><br />Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-84976504625266833702015-01-19T10:42:45.114-05:002015-01-19T10:42:45.114-05:00I love that poem. What sighing sentiment, and New...I love that poem. What sighing sentiment, and New England society was advanced enough at that time join in on idealizing bucolic country settings.<br /><br />You jarred me out of my warm reverie with your last paragraph, though. I'm not criticizing, just telling you how I feel. Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-48617264392606498512015-01-19T07:31:40.337-05:002015-01-19T07:31:40.337-05:00vanitas<i>vanitas</i>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-32533815210700129542015-01-19T02:29:53.248-05:002015-01-19T02:29:53.248-05:00Excellent choice.Excellent choice.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.com