Re: Non Sequitur vs. LICD

On May 29, 12:07 pm, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PatONeill wrote:
On May 29, 2:36 am, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PatONeill wrote:
I'm sorry, but I prefer my news to be done by people who know what
they're doing, not by a bunch of amateurs each contributing their bit..
Here, read about bloggers who know what they are doing outing the
"professional journalists" who phoned it in instead of researching the
story:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1428

This is the type of story I find by following interesting blogs that I
would never find in the newspaper.

Oh, yeah, because it's so important

How is this any less important than the Donna Reed servicemen's letters
story?  And why does "importance" matter here?  Wasn't your point that
you wouldn't find stories like this if you just relied on blogs and not
newspapers for your news?

that somebody catch a writer and
publisher in a marketing/publicity ploy that may not be completely
true. In the course of harping on the exactitude of "millionth word",
the bloggers miss the more important point the writer is making--that
English has become the world's language.

The writer has been scamming this "millionth word" thing for years.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=972

The writer's point is to sell books, not to discuss if (or how) English
has become the world's language.  These traditional media journalists
(except for the Economist) didn't do any research - they each wrote the
article from a single source (the author).  Isn't that shoddy
journalism?  Yet, the online journalist (Slate.com) got to the bottom of
the story!

But now that you bring it up, why do you suppose English HAS become the
world's language?  Is it because of newspapers?  Or is it because of the
internet?

jc

English was well on its way to becoming the world's language decades
before the internet. It has been the world language in air traffic
control since the 1950s. It has been the world language in ham radio
since the 1930s. The combination of the British Empire and American
cultural hegemony did that.

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