3½ years ago I looked at Sarah Palin & thought, "OK, this is rock bottom. They can't get stupider"

[Bucky]

Republicans, I salute you.

















PS, Dear Satire: hang it up.


 

[lunatica]

1. There's a reason for the word 'bottomless'

Unfortunately it's no longer just an abstract intellectual theory.

[Glitterati]

2. Grrrr

What is up with people just adding "er" to words? I see it even in news articles!

Sorry, no such thing as "stupider."

It's "more stupid."

[hobbit709]

5. The thing about the English language is that it's intensely modifiable.

[Glitterati]

9. LOL!

Meaning anyone who wishes to can butcher it.

[Bucky]

11. Are you really gonna write "LOL" and then lament the butchering of the English tongue?

Lol, indeed.

[hobbit709]

12. and has. does anyone speak the English of Chaucer anymore?

Or even that of Shakespeare, our Founding Fathers, and Lincoln.

And after George The Lesser and Ricky Goodhair?

[lbrtbell]

16. Not to be a grammar Nazi

But I find it amusing that someone who misspelled "intensely" justifies an improper word like "stupider".... :rofl:

[hobbit709]

17. Don't you mean spelling nazi?

[Bucky]

20. What are you, some kind of categories of nazis nazi?

I apologize. Apparently I'm a rhetorical question nazi.

[izquierdista]

6. It's called the comparative suffix

Many non-Romance languages have them.

[Bucky]

8. Languages evolve, friend. Otherwise we'd be speaking Anglo-Saxon right now

or, arguably, Indo-European. One of the marvels of the English language is its capacity for the coinage of new words. Of course I can't take credit for "stupider" as it's been around for a long while (as you atest). However the clarity of my meaning was seemingly unimpaired by my use of the offending neologism. In general, linguists do note a general trend toward more standard formulations in the English language, as evidenced by the assertion of regular conjugations of once irregular verbs (among other phenomena). Still, thanks for the input.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. You're right

That's why we still speak pre-Norman Conquest Anglo Saxon.

[Uben]

3. Just goes to show.......

.....if you're a republican and work hard, you can accomplish anything!

[hobbit709]

4. Every day my view of the possible is enlarged.

[Mira]

7. You made me sit here and cackle, thanks!!! Recommended.

[mod mom]

10. It's frightening to think a segment of the GOP base is so greedy that they

are willing to support such a candidate in order to hang on to more of their money.

[polichick]

13. Some are greedy, others are just easily manipulated and fearful.

[Bucky]

14. What's so odd is the number of Republicans among the corporate screwees

and they're fighting to let billionaire exploiters hang on to the money squeezed out of ordinary consumers like themselves. It'd be funny if it weren't for all those jobless people.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

15. Awful as they are, I think most of this batch are better than Palin. N.T.

[Walk away]

19. It's unimportant how stupid republican candidates are....

it's the voters who are stupid enough to vote for them