Ah, L, it's everywhere, it's everywhere!
Certainly, our politicians are quite proficient in it...
Written, & spoken....
D
On 2013-05-04, at 9:35 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Modern British is a dialect of language spoken in the countries of the
> United Kingdom and this sentence is written in it. To show you how
> easy it is to speak and write in Modern British. Some people say that
> the language it is written from is Global English in all its forms at
> once. Could be.
>
> The characteristics of Modern British are:
>
> bad proofreading
>
> poor especially ambiguous grammar with no abstractable standard ect
>
> confusing use of punctuation
>
> limited vocabulary
>
> lack of interest on the part of speakers in semantic meaning
>
> sudden changers of semantic meaning
>
> fluid or no distinction between different parts of speech such as they are
>
> adoption of vocabulary on the basis of fashion [e.g. issue, solution]
>
> It may seem that Modern British is a creole and that should not be
> entirely discounted; but there is said to be strong evidence that
> people who cannot effectively speak any language well began speaking
> this way when they were given certificates suggesting there are
> proficient speakers. The prevailing notion that only paedophiles
> should be criticised meant their delusions were never challenged.
>
> Therefore everyone can speak Modern British as well as anyone else. It
> is therefore a deeply democratic language and therefore a good thing.
>
> However, Modern British was early on consciously developed by the
> Public Relations and Customer Care Industries as a fluent means of
> sounding as though they are saying something. Good style in Modern
> British now tends to evade precision, answer falsely and deter people
> from questioning. It has been enthusiastically adopted widely.
>
> Modern British is sometimes compared to George Orwell's fictional
> Newspeak the aim of which is to limit thoughts believed to pose a
> threat to the regime. Modern British limits all thought rather at
> random. So you can see.
>
> It is thought that there are now more speakers of Modern British in UK
> than there are living people in U.K.And numbers are getting bigger all
> the time.
>
>
>
> Lawrence Upton
>
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