Re: I Speak American

[Aaron Edwards <edwardsaaron2000 at yahoo_com>]

Because it is based on ignorance. Stupidity. Sorry,
they are kind of pet peeves ofv mine. And notice I
used the word perverted totally out of context, so
who's "perverting" the language now?
--- OncleBoo at aol_com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/9/2003 9:05:53 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> edwardsaaron2000 at yahoo_com writes:
> 
> 
> > Actually, what we have is a regional dialect. And
> I
> > might argue, a lot of our dialect is based purely
> on
> > ignorance of the true meaning of a word, for
> instance,
> > what does thw word Diva really mean? No what does
> the
> > media tell us it means? Sorry, touchy subject. I
> hate
> > VH1 ande all thier croneys if for no other resaon,
> > giving us this perverted form of the word.
> > 
> 
> Perverted??  Just why is a media-created alternate
> meaning of a word any less 
> valid than an alternate meaning that evolves in some
> other subculture?
> 
> 
> Steve
> oncleboo at aol_com
> 
> ==============================
> "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's
> good for people than people 
> do is a swine." -- P.J. O'Rourke
> 


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 And I use these words pretty loosely. There's so much more to life than words. 
-Linford Detweiler
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Aaron J Edwards
edwardsaaron2000 at yahoo_com
http://clone316.tripod.com

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