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Originally posted by rainmaker
...but it's not an indication of what low-lifes they are.
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You sound vaguely like somebody else I've seen lately....Oh yes:
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks are taught their Greek.
In France every Frenchman knows his language from "A" to "Zed"
The French never care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards, which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
Why can't the English,
Why can't the English learn to speak?
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Originally posted by rainmaker
My concern, as I've pointed out in this thread, is that a professional with a huge salary and national standing who is using language for a living should certainly do better than Packer does. His is one case where it speaks (!) to the character, showing that Packer is lazy, arrogant and conceited. He has the chance to make the world a better place, and he chooses instead to make it worse. In other words, he's a low-life, who prefers to wallow in his filth, and tries to convince others to do the same.
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Welcome to the free market economy. It seems the broadcast media limit their sense of social responsibility to attempting to influence presidential elections and pointing out pitiful situations where "somebody should do something."
When it comes to sportscasters, it's all about the money, Baby! Packer et. al. will be gracing the airwaves for exactly as long as they make money for their employers, and they will be speaking the way they do for exactly as long as somebody will pay them as they are.
[Edited by Back In The Saddle on Mar 29th, 2005 at 12:01 PM]