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9151156

Anonymous Fri Feb 24 10:57:02 2017 No.9151156 [Reply] [Original]

The English language is now a tool of the people! The elites don't control it!

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 10:58:58 2017 No.9151162 Same as it ever was

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:01:46 2017 No.9151172 At least we're not France or Iceland, with their weird word policies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:46:33 2017 No.9151313 >>9151156 Disgusting. Understandable, but disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:48:30 2017 No.9151324 >clicktivism Slacktivism sounded better.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:50:01 2017 No.9151335 Walked past a hipster niche shop in a gentrified european neighbourhood today with a big picture denigrating trump today, the pure irony of it all

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:55:14 2017 No.9151359 >>9151162 Letting the days go by

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 11:58:46 2017 No.9151374 I've never seen those words before.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:03:15 2017 No.9151590 >>9151156 >>9151156 >elites dont control language Who do you think came up with >clicktivism

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:15:52 2017 No.9151642 >>9151156 doubleplusgood on behalf of Oxford to haterade clicktivism by clicktivising haterade through their official dictionary like this

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:18:43 2017 No.9151653 Prescriptivism a shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:23:29 2017 No.9151671 >>9151653 this

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:24:04 2017 No.9151672 >>9151653 *is shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:24:14 2017 No.9151673 >>9151156 Has anything ever benefited from control over it being moved to the people from the elites?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:32:36 2017 No.9151712 >haterade alright this is legitimately terrible its a fucking reference to a sports drink is there any more proof needed that the world is run by corporatism"

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:43:30 2017 No.9151752 >>9151672 ayyy my hombre you fell in for þe trick silly hack

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:47:05 2017 No.9151768 >>9151653 Wrong. Some English is superior to others.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 13:54:17 2017 No.9151794 >>9151673 the elites by definition control the people its all consolidation

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 14:03:14 2017 No.9151815 >>9151324 Came here to post this. Sounds better and sums it up. >>9151712 I have never, ever, ever heard of this until now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 14:04:50 2017 No.9151821 >>9151768 wrong t. linguist

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 14:57:31 2017 No.9152006 >>9151172 France is under threat because of the dominance of the English language.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 24 15:25:52 2017 No.9152120 >>9151712 right, just like hoover, jacuzzi, microchip, sellotape, spam &c.