Everyone needs a shoulder to lean on.

politicalprof:

With graduations (and faculty promotion and tenure season) just past, an oldie but a goodie: why God can’t earn tenure:

1. He published only one book.
2. It was in Hebrew.
3. It had no references.
4. He did not publish it in refereed journals.
5. There is significant doubt He wrote it…

estifi:

namemefish:

Though there are over 7,000 living human languages, only a dozen of them actually matter. The majority of languages are holdovers from cultures that should have become extinct generations ago.

I havent wanted to throw up more in my life than I do right now.

That guy is a dick.

But one of the comments made me happy:

Dave • 8 months ago

wow. xenophobia is alive and well in linguistic circles. Actually, i apologize to the linguistic community, the “author” or more aptly put ape with a laptop is obviously no more a linguist than a racist is an intellectual. This is the biggest pile of offensive crap i have ever read. I am ashamed that this writer appears to be a native English speaker. It is bigots like this that give America and English speakers in general a bad name. He thinks that Puerto Ricans garble Spanish?? Have a listen to your average New York speaker or Texan and see how awful their English is, if you think standard English is the only legitimate one. I don’t. So what they speak different than some people, language is meant to be spoken by one to another and if that is how they understand and speak it so be it. Nobody, especially this idiot, should be passing judgement on the correctness of language. Language is the most organic natural part of human culture.

I’ve never been more mad. English is not that easy. I take major offense to the way he thinks Spanish dialects work, and the way he describes other languages is just plain sad. Sigh.