Comments on: If you’ve been wondering why the standards of writing have declined in recent years… https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Foxfier https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242371 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:15:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242371 OlderandWheezier Says:
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Good alternative title, Occam – I was also thinking that CCCP would be a more accurate acronym than their chosen CCCC.

You mean their “alternate accurate (simi) alliterative appellation’s acronym” would be….?

]]> By: Foxfier https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242358 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:56:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242358 Some time ago, the teaching of writing liberated itself from the surly bonds of clarity, rules, and white oppression (is that redundant?) and escaped to touch the face of diversity and self-expression.

If you’d like the book from my last writing class, I’d be pleased to send it to you– it was about 2003, via Phoenix Online, and was such a load of bull that I pretty much wrote off using them for an English degree. I think you can get my email from my login. ^.^

]]> By: Richard https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242302 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:38:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242302

hey, at least they haven’t jettisoned alliteration

Shouldn’t that be “at least they haven’t abandoned alliteration”? 🙂

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242204 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:48:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242204 the first part of the story was about some hell-hole in Africa, the second – about Washington, DC,

A distinction without a difference.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242174 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:10:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242174 Words are easier to manipulate than actions. Case in point, no matter how many Leftists action groups are out on the streets, when I cut off someone’s head, that someone’s head is not going to get re-attached, their body resurrected, and be out walking due to “pressure” from the action groups.

Actions are often times harder to distort then illusionary words.

The Soviets were masters of illusion crafting first and foremost. When there wasn’t enough food, they created illusionary words that were almost as good as food. Rather than fixing the food supply and redistribution issue like a conservative would have.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242173 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:07:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242173 Concerning Sergey’s story, the point I take from that is chiefly that teachers are slaves of the unions. The unions don’t represent the will of the teachers. The unions represent the will of the evil Leftist alliance of money laundering extortion racketeering politicians and bureaucrats. It is a fig leaf that “unions” are to help the workers.

Thus when teachers say that they want more unions, I say to them that they don’t get a say in anything. They are either told what to do or they disobey and are excommunicated.

]]> By: Sgt. Mom https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242110 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:15:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242110 Thanks, Oblio – you won’t regret it, honestly, you won’t. The local librarians and book clubs that I have given talks to over the last year — they all love the Trilogy and say that there isn’t any more painless and more interesting way to get a handle on local history. Enjoy!

]]> By: Oblio https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242064 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:59:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242064 OK, Sgt. Mom, I’m in. I’m just back from a business trip to San Antonio, so I am totally prepared to read a Texas frontier family saga.

Go, Sgt. Mom.

]]> By: Paul_In_Houston https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242023 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:45:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242023 The idea was that children would do better at writing if their natural urge to express themselves was not bogged down by such extraneous baggage as rules, at least at the beginning. Later on, precision would come.

This is remarkably like learning to shoot quickly and accurately.

You don’t go for speed first, with the idea that precision will eventually arrive.

You concentrate on doing it right each time.

With practice the speed (or in your case, the ability to express oneself) will increase naturally.

It seldom works very well the other way around.
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]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242022 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:37:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/04/22/if-youve-been-wondering-why-the-standards-of-writing-have-declined-in-recent-years/#comment-242022 My cousin works as a schoolteacher in Southern California, only as replacement when regular teachers are sick. Once he said to her class that they must study harder to get a good job when they grew up. The students complained that she was “terrorising” them. She was reprimanded by principal for such non-PC behavior and warned that they will fire her if get a new complaint.

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