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the real problem is that the world is just dumber and fewwer and fewwer people read books any more for enjoyment like probly all of us on this site. the english language has also gone down the preverbial toilet with the use of ebonics and slang terms that are degrading becoming wide spread.
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i also think the english language is going down the drain. we abolished, for some reason, the most complex pronoun, and therefore the most compelling (is that the right word?)to intelligent people; the use of thou, thy, thee, thine. all languages have a way of distinguishing whether they are talking to a superior or friend except english. (sorry if this is off topic). english has lost its beauty.
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I personally prefer to speak with older language, because it sounds so much nicer to me. I am trying to stop using so much slang, but it's very hard to do because of the number of people who don't care. I have one friend who is doing the same thing, and she is better at it then me, but we are only two teenagers in a world of slang-users.
Did that make any sense to you? It makes more sense in my head. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]
I have a friend who says that she is too stupid to understand LotR and that it is too long. Another friend said that she threw the books in the garbage because she hated them. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]
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-Tolkien was a self-important, portentous old git
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*gasp* BLASPHEMY!!!!!! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
[ July 15, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]