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Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words
D'Sphitz writes "Cindy Smart, the first doll in the world to be able to read, tell the time and do sums.
Cindy Smart 'sees' via a camera located under a bee on her overalls and has a computer 'brain' that can recognise more than 600 words and objects, although she refuses to recite certain 4-letter words. 'We don't say those kind of words,' she shrills, refusing to even spell obscenities. 'That's a bad word.'" Sounds like a good candidate for a personality transplant.
yeah, the English Languate Fatheads are annoying, but they're a hell of a lot better than the French Language Fatheads, who seem to think that 'board with wheels' (translated, of course) sounds more sophisticated/intelligent than 'skateboard'
I was in a class called 'Images of Africa in Film and Literature.' I read some good books and saw some interesting films. Generally, I was enjoying it. Then one day, someone (maybe me?) refered to nigger South Africans. The prof got upset. "We just don't use that word," he said. The jist of his argument against the word was that many ignorant people use it as an insult.
These stereotypes are, of course, not encouraged by the academic community which studies Africa. But Jesus H. Fucking Christ, nigger just means someone who was is black!
After that, I just really lost interest in the class and respect for that prof. I just did enough to get by, and I still got an A.
So in conclusion, thought/word/language police, FUCK OFF!
Americans are the people who spell things stupidly: color (colour), nite (night), tire (tyre), check (cheque), liter (litre), center (centre), etc.
Therefore it's only reasonable to conclude that they have stupid grammar. =]