Re: Ancestors or cousins?


"Astral Voyager" <nobody.home@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Don Moody" <dpmoody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


All this shows is that some nitwit producer does not mind
bastardising the language in order to create 'production values'.

Going off theme but...

I had to laugh the other week watching a program about the
Philosopher's Stone. It included film scenes inside a 15C
Alchemist's workshop and overlaid at the bottom of the screen was
'RECONSTRUCTION'.

How stupid do these program makers think we are. Did they really
think we would believe a 15C Alchemist would have let someone into
his workshop with a colour camera to reveal his secrets?

There was someone on this very newsgroup not all that long ago who
asked where he could get an aerial photograph of Somerset as it was in
some timeframe like the 17th century.

There are people on this and other newsgroups who ask how a name was
pronounced centuries ago, without even having the nous to realise that
if they went to the next street or town today they would get a
different pronunciation to what they themselves used today.

There are people who believe that The Bible, King James version in
English, is the literal Word of God and ignore the minor detail that
the original texts were not in any kind of English.

And so on. The contempt of programme producers for the intelligence of
their target viewer (an adult with a reading age of 9) is wholly
justified and well-founded on experience and commercial reality. The
inevitable outcome is what has been said in this newsgroup many times.
Such programmes cannot be taken by any sensible person as any kind of
reliable contribution to learning or knowledge of their alleged
subject. When you've gone Ooh and Aah half a dozen times in a 30
minute programme you've had all that such tripe can offer.

Don


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