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   Quinn C to All   
   Re: The English language is doomed   
   12 Oct 18 17:20:00   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: lispamateur@crommatograph.info   
      
   * Quinn C:   
      
   > * Steve Hayes:   
   >   
   >> Noam Chomsky, the plain-speaking philosopher   
   >   
   > Who that?   
      
   | My show is a little bit silly, and a   
   | Little bit pretentious, so like   
   | Shakespeare's willy or   
   | Noam Chomsky wearing a strap-on   
   |   
   | It's also a little bit gay, and a   
   | Little bit offensive, like   
   | Thanksgiving Day or   
   | Noam Chomsky wearing a strap-on   
      
   -- Bo Burnham   
      
   Why Noam Chomsky? Because he's plain-spoken? Hardly.   
      
   --   
   Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an   
   inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not   
   conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.   
     -- Judith Butler   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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