Retaliation Of The Valedictorian

One of our new boat items is an iPad.   We have been delaying the purchase due to cost vs need and the desire to go cruising instead of surfing the internet.  With the delay of our next Bahamas cruise until next year we decided to take the overly priced "Cheeseburger in paradise" budget and jump a little deeper into the Apple Barrel. One of our favorites on the iPad so far has been Flipbook.  Flipbook allows us to see most of our favorite content from the web and some it thinks we want.  One of the items it (Mental Floss) thought we wanted lead us to this post.

The purchase of this book, or the previous one, could lead to Schadenfreude.

Have you ever noticed that an 0 is an 0 and a 1 is a 1 but a word is a chameleon?   Read is read, and knot is naught.  "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"  screeched the Valedictorian.  With numbers we don't have to trace the "root" back to another civilization that has failed.  We don't have to diagram the number to make sure it states what we mean.  If you have 5 you have 5.  But if you does run.  Are you running?  Have you ran? Are you going to Run?  Or does it cease to be relevant due to improper use of does?  We accept math as intelligence and look for reason.  Prime has been sent into the depths of space with hope that we will be perceived as intelligent.  We took simple sticks and beads and made an Abacus because it was truth.

We were taught to disrespect the Clampetts and Kettles.  That the wrong word based on the doctrine of learned quantifies the perpetrator as imbecile.  That perceived grammatical correctness of the ever changing language is more important than the thought.  Within our own language we condemn.  Those that speak in other tongues must of course be less than imbecile.  After all why are they not using such a simple, never contradicting,  never changing, always predictable language where each thought has it's own word:s)  Why do they think they can get away without plurals?  Why do they put the verb first?  So condescending are those that have memorized the illogical.  So forgiving are those that understand the logical.  After all naught and naught is naught.  But, knot and knot is not.

Roman Holiday and travesties sought for personal gains by the simplistic valedictorians assuming their understanding of communication is critical to the advancement of humanity.  For if we had such an atrocity as 1+1=3 we would have reason to care.

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