A new presidential executive order declares English to be America’s official language.
Clearly, long overdue. Consider the follow verses from The Ballad of Davy Crocket:
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree
He killed him a b'ar when he was only three.
”So’s he knew”? “Killed him a b’ar”? We can imagine young Davy musing: “I might could kill me a b’ar.” “I’m a-fixin‘ to kill me a b’ar.”
The confusion these constructions have wrought on Americans may have been the trigger for a lost generation tuning out on various drugs.
Now, if our teachers will only inculcate proper English, instead of social justice platitudes, the American mind might turn around (and even turn to God).
Blessings.
Clearly, long overdue. Consider the follow verses from The Ballad of Davy Crocket:
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree
He killed him a b'ar when he was only three.
”So’s he knew”? “Killed him a b’ar”? We can imagine young Davy musing: “I might could kill me a b’ar.” “I’m a-fixin‘ to kill me a b’ar.”
The confusion these constructions have wrought on Americans may have been the trigger for a lost generation tuning out on various drugs.
Now, if our teachers will only inculcate proper English, instead of social justice platitudes, the American mind might turn around (and even turn to God).
Blessings.