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Originally Posted by Darkland
Pretty much makes my case... An idiot reviewing Idiocracy. You have to love the irony of it. It is sad what they DON'T teach our kids these days. I have to correct my kids all the time on their speech and use of the English language.
The only thing Idiocracy neglected to show was how people today won't even recognize the English language in 100 years due to the bastardization of it from multiple sources. Especially all these damn acronyms we use on the net and in text messages because we are to lazy to type it all out.
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Hope one day you will understand that English is a living language and thus should also be evolving. We may typically have a smaller verbal vocabulary than some in the past but with fewer words the same thoughts are conveyed. Text or net speak is not actually English, it is another one of many universal languages. Morse Code was something along the same lines along with stenography.
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Originally Posted by Darkland
I think you would be mistaken. I think we are breeding intelligent people less and less, or at the very least with economic problems those who might have had a chance wont. Add to that the VERY REAL and documented decline in the bare bones educational system.
You want a perfect example of how smart we're NOT? Check this timeline out.
1. All communications via letters sent by post.
2. Yippee, we get the telegraph and now communicate via signals down a wire. The communication is dashes and dots, Morse Code.
3. Holy shit... Here comes the phone. I can hear their voices. Still restricted to a wire or land line.
4. Now things get trippy... WE DISCOVER RADIO WAVES! And are able to communicate over long distances with NO WIRE. That shits magic.
5. Now there seems to be a large gap in history before we come up with any real new ideas.
6. Cell phones begin to arrive on the scene but they are little more than giant ass walkie talkies you can use as a lethal weapon.
7. Technology finds its fucking stride and takes off faster than the delorean in back to the future. It begins moving so fast nobody can keep up and cellphones become smaller and smaller.
8. And then someone has the genius idea of taking the advanced technology backwards several decades by allowing cellphones to be used like walkie talkies again. Click a button and talk, release the button and wait for response.
9. Then someone had another bizarre holy shit moment and said WAIT! Why stop there, lets really NOT maximize the use of our technology and the astounding happens. We go back to an over glorified version of the telegraph with text messaging.
Now how is that for idiocracy?
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After reading that list; just wow! Continue on with your thoughts and beliefs. You sure pegged history and development without leaving anything out.