Oxford English Dictionary Ends Print Edition, Politicans Control Using Few Words

OED is DEAD

We shouldn’t be too surprised that the famous Oxford English Dictionary is going out of print.  After all, the 20 volume set costs about $1,200.00 and weighs nearly 750 pounds while, for a small fee, it is available on the Internet.  As the saying goes, if your job is too easy robots will probably be doing it soon and printing a book few will ever read or buy is a pretty easy job.

Few in America (or even in England for that matter) speak or write English very well so it’s unclear that the death of the monster  tome will really have any effect aside from preventing snooty writers and teachers from showing off their bank account and bookshelf space by owning the 20 books themselves.  Technology has replaced good old fashioned learning as we recently read about the youth in China and Japan who are forgetting how to write because they use computers and cell phones all the time.

Americans don’t seem to know their English as well as they once did.  After all, they elected someone who continually spouted the words “hope” and “change” and He didn’t consult the OED first because He didn’t know what they meant – and neither did anybody who voted for him, apparently.

Or you could say that He did consult the OED first and thought it best to leave everything vague so as to not be called to account for His promises.

The average English speaker apparently knows between 12,000 and 20,000 different words while, we are told, Shakespeare (or Shakey as the Brits call him) used over 30,000 different words.  I would say today we only need to know the meaning of a few words like “illegal immigration” or “patriotic” or “Fox News is full of lies.”  Simplifying life down to this level is what the Elected Class wants as it makes the public easier to control because their minds will be focused on just a few things so they will not be concentrating on the wider issues.

Liberals don't need the OED to describe this rally by Beck.

Glenn Beck’s rally on the Lincoln Memorial could not be measured by the simple, dictionaryless writers of the mainstream media so they restored to things like “extremism” and “hatred” and “fear” and such.  To try and describe the beliefs and agendas of the 300,000 people who took time out of their lives to show their concern for this country is a remarkable thing and yet, to read about it in the news is to think these people were motivated by a gutter-like level of fear and hatred.

The OED is available online like so many of the refutations regarding Liberals and their attempts to discredit the opposition but, like the 291,500 different words in the dictionary, most will go unread.  There is a concerted, coordinated, and planned effort underway by a host of journolists, “activists” and politicians to distort, subvert, and ignore the truth and facts found in the “flyover” states and in the cities, schools, universities, and capitols around the nation.  The end of the OED print edition is nothing more than a simple reaction to market forces though we should all take a moment to reflect upon all of the words found within its 20 volumes and why we, as a nation, seem to give our elected officials the power to control our lives using only a handful of them.

Maybe these SEIU members could have used the OED at their rally last weekend:

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