And grammar and spelling are only good when you want to communicate with an extremely wide audience. If you’re in a tribe, any old ‘hood talk will do. Then you know who is a member of your tribe and who isn’t…which is the basis of “My Fair Lady” and most of democracy…we share a language.
Yup… that’s mostly it, that and the values inherent thereto…
I’m a lifetime liberal and I opine that not requiring intense language training and abilities of immigrants is profoundly anti-democratic.
Yeah, I know: seems weird. The next few times you peek under a burka to treat a black eye for a recently-married(!) third wife you’ll begin to wonder…
And grammar and spelling are only good when you want to communicate with an extremely wide audience. If you’re in a tribe, any old ‘hood talk will do. Then you know who is a member of your tribe and who isn’t…which is the basis of “My Fair Lady” and most of democracy…we share a language.
Yup… that’s mostly it, that and the values inherent thereto…
I’m a lifetime liberal and I opine that not requiring intense language training and abilities of immigrants is profoundly anti-democratic.
Yeah, I know: seems weird. The next few times you peek under a burka to treat a black eye for a recently-married(!) third wife you’ll begin to wonder…