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The Language of Lunacy

How did the language of the most complicated and sophisticated society get to be the language of corrupt thugs?

“English is (literally) a bastard language, the illegitimate child of a collision of many languages. It is spoken by the members of the most complex culture on the planet, a bunch of people as confused and wild as the language they continue to recreate daily. Of course, nobody really knows it - the people speaking it don’t know themselves.” - Me.

Our society is not as corrupt as the clown act in D. C., but you wouldn’t know it from the common tongue

A couple of ideas crashed together this morning. First, I had a conversation on language with a friend of mine, which yielded the quote above. We were discussing languages after he said hello to me in Irish. I had to research it because I know zero Irish.

Then I read some of the Irish news coverage of the British Royals’ visit to D. C. and ended up chuckling about their coverage of the Queen ditching an expensive bit of bling that Melania gave her. Why would anyone be surprised when the Queen, who was raised from birth among people of class, got rid of an expensive bauble she was given by a retired whore who purchased it with corrupt money? At least the Queen knows what class and respectability are.

In the US, we have members of a supposedly “smart” society putting a stupid thug in a position of power, something I still fail to comprehend. Why would Americans would put thugs there? It isn’t like we didn’t know that they were idiot thugs when Trump somehow stayed out of jail long enough to run for election the second time after being convicted of multiple felony counts.

Trump is (at best) a third-rate con artist who has made his “living” lying like most people breathe. The use and abuse of English is why I connected all of this together. What makes it even worse it Trump’s obvious lunacy - while he manages to get late-night TV show hosts fired for it, telling the truth is not something that will go away. Sooner or later Trump is going to run out of functioning nerve cells and quit lying.

What strengthened the connection is that the fright wing has made a profession of mauling the English language into something its parents couldn’t recognize - the right redefines words so that they tell black-is-white kinds of lies. Verbal twists like “woke” being a bad thing are blatantly ridiculous, although in many ways they aren’t lying when they abuse the word - they slam people who are conscious and functioning with it, but also admit that they are NOT functioning in the same breath, albeit unintentionally. People who are mentally functioning will not have anything to do with the orange cult, so of course, the cult hates them.

I am not a full-time writer, and was never an English major, so my ranting about the abuse of the language really makes it obvious how bad it is. Engineers have (justifiably) never been known for their language skills. If/when we ever have a sane, intelligent president and government again, maybe the crackheads that have been playing with the language will have to go back into the trash heaps they came from, and we can have discussions again instead of screaming matches. Then again, I suppose I can always dream.