“Neener neener neener”
Folks, I think the joke is on us. Saddam Husien did have chemical weapons and actually was able to use them against us without us even being aware of it. And what, you may ask, is the result of these weapons? Everyone seems to have become blindingly juvenile.
Armin Burkhardt, a German-language professor from Magdeburg University, is vexed by English words, which have percolated through his country since World War II ended, displacing many familiar German and French terms. Mr. Burkhardt organized "Language in Politics," a four-member etymological policing group intent on purging English offenders. ...
...On April 8, he issued a starter list of 33 words to avoid, complete with French replacements. He promises similar lists in the future.
Mr. Burkhardt wants Germans to sit on a sofa, not a couch, at a fete, not a party, and be formidable, not cool.
Oh, grow up people! Don't you have anything better to do with your lives than devise useless and completely ineffectual ways of making some political statement? Let's assume for a moment that Mr. Burkhardt has some phenomenal power over the German population in general and teenagers in particular to affect a change in their speech patterns. ("OK" is on his black list.) Yes, that's a big assumption, but work with me here. The Germans and the French didn't like the US going to war in Iraq. I think we all got that. Is there anyone who missed that? So the Germans no longer "party" and are now "formidable." Am I supposed to care? Is this supposed to hurt my feelings?
Now, the Germans are not the only ones affected by these regression chemicals and not even the first. Anyone ever get an order of freedom fries? Did you have freedom toast for breakfast? Any of you ladies get your nails freedom tipped?
Let's hope the effects of this disastrous weapon wear off soon so we can all go back to being adults, stop hurling petty insults at one another and find something meaningful to do with our lives.