Honey, I Finished The Internet

5 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Got it.
   So, the white guys who interpreted the Rosetta Stone back then were merely culpable of the newly minted sin of linguistic rascism.
   Tower of fucking Bable, redux.
   Vowels and consonants are rascist, eh, Mr Strunk and White!z.
   And I make this retort as a guy who sat through enervating lectures from literary profs who thought they knew how best to enunciate Chaucer.
   The great vowel shift and all that rot, eh, wot?
   Peace.

   1. Glad you got so much out of it. I started to doze off.

2. Heh. The vocal history of the Gitksan people hasn’t lasted in the age of writing. They’re now the Gitxsan. Because, you know, their grandparents weren’t pronouncing it right.

3. Thanks for the fun interlude from the politics. We take a lot for granted. The Egyptians weren’t slouches.
   European civilization is built on previous ones that socially decayed and fell but achievements were passed down including alphabet, number system and language. North America’s inhabitants, having had no ties to these civilizations since they first walked here 10,000 years ago, never developed the wheel or an alphabet.

4. ‘Tht ws fckng gd’