ChebuRussiaTV recently set up an experiment using a hidden camera placed on a man who would be posing as half of a gay couple, walking hand-in-hand with another man through Russian city streets. As expected, Russia's well-known anti-gay sentiment manifested in a number of ways; mainly profanity and physical roughousing such as pushing and shoving. English subtitles give one an idea of the hate that openly gay Russians face every day. Via Design Taxi
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Not sure why you feel that addressing more than one issue at a time has anything to do with "fix stuff" fairy dust. I think you're saying that you can't fix anything until you fix those items on the list that you consider basic, so addressing any other issues is just wishful thinking. You may have a (cynical) point, but why not address these things? Otherwise, marginalized people will continue to be oppressed and die in silence. That's no solution.
Is there a giant To Do list of things that need to fixed with countries, and only one issue can be addressed at a time? Or is stopping homophobia and anti-Semitism a "luxury" cause? Maybe the USA should have delayed the civil rights movement until the economy improved?
That said, mashing words together is part of almost every language in the world, and many Germanic languages are pretty much built on the concept. Romance languages like Spanish, when spoken in real life, also have tons of dropped syllables and are darn near unintelligible to listen to if all you know is what you learned in a high school text book.
That is how all languages evolve over time. The dictionary is supposed to change. However, lolspeak and lazy sms methods don't belong. :P
However, bad grammar is bad grammar and should be exterminated.
- My mom or my dad does the dishes.
- My sister or my parents do the dishes.
I should really be grading my students' grammar hw instead of doing this.
Oh wow, I just realized it was a pun and I've been coming here for years!
But I'm sure that's part of the joke.
When you are lost, you orient yourself. That way you become oriented. Yes, you can go through orientation, but afterward you are not "orientated". (shakes head in disgust)
Funny that no one ever corrects "sad," "angry," "ecstatic," etc.
ps, hopefully it goes without saying that i don't care to have my grammar errors scrutinized, analyzed and publicized. thank you.
If we're so darned civilized and special, can't we at least take the time out for a complete sentence and proper spelling? Since I've begun losing my hearing I've gotten even less patient with the spoken language.
At least any mistakes I make are legitimate errors and not willful ignorance and laziness.