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But it would look "fuking" stupid Tom Send a noteboard - 23/01/2018 01:30:15 AM

And actually, I'd assume that "fuking" rhymes with "puking". You'd have to spell it "fukking" at a minimum. But why? Just to start the race to the bottom to see how stupid we can get our populace to be?

An early Russian grammarian made the following point (I'm paraphrasing; the book is up in Westchester and I'm in the City right now): no matter what grammatical and orthographic rules you make, stupid and uneducated people will be unable to follow them, but educated and intelligent people will take advantage of the nuances in meaning and so simplification is to be avoided.

When I see a word like "fuck" I know that it's a good Saxon root because Latin-based words don't end in -ck. Also, when we use correct spelling we don't confuse they're, their and there, two, to and too, or your and you're, or (looking back at what I've written) populace and populous.

So no thank you, there's no reason whatsoever to simplify the language just so some retards will find even that to be beyond their limited mental capabilities. They will reduce the language to a string of emojis and we will regress to some incredibly stupid form of hieroglyphs as a result. Then they won't even be able to do that.

Don't feed the unwashed masses. Insist on proper English.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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