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   Mack A. Damia to hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
   Re: The English language is doomed   
   11 Oct 18 08:48:55   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:13:38 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >Noam Chomsky, the plain-speaking philosopher and cognitive scientist   
   >par excellence, complained to a French newspaper last year that “when   
   >I hear words like ‘dialectic’ or ‘hermeneutic’ and other   
   >pseudo-profundities, then, like Goering, I reach for my gun”…   
   >   
   >Read it all here:   
   >   
   >https://t.co/NoRMuaFCLC   
      
   "(blah...blah) I reach for my gun."   
      
   "Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and   
   playwright, directly aligned with Nazi philosophy, as a member of the   
   officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich. The   
   statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”,   
   variously misattributed to Himmler, Goebbels and Göring, was in fact a   
   corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter."  (Wiki)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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