A Public Good

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To: Daniela Hernandez, Dartmouth PC natterer
From: Mitch Berg, campesino ingobernable
Re: Nuestra dva sprache

Ms. Hernandez,

Language is the supremely public good.

Nobody owns it. Even the French discovered that the full weight of national power can go so far in governing how people use your language.

Now, you’re the woman who’s been nattering at the supremely gullible administration at Dartmouth (“the poster child for the higher-ed bubble”) about peoples’ use of Spanish terms like Fiesta.

Since you’re only getting a degree from Dartmouth, I’ll explain this slowly:  people adopt works from other languages, usually (not necessarily always) because the word works better than the local word.

So you have ever, even once, sat in your sauna drinking rooibos tea from an itsy-bitsy bamboo demitasse listening to the music blare from the frat, you can thank the Finns, Hungarians, South Africans Afrikaans speakers, the Dutch, French, the Dutch again, and Latin.  Or stop oppressing them.  Your choice. 

And since, like all the words above, your fellow PC indoctrinees students are using “Fiesta” to mean roughly exactly what it means in Spanish, I suggest you relax.  Or contact your ombudsman…

…oops. Norwegian.

That is all.

 

6 thoughts on “A Public Good”

  1. Mitch, you need to check your white male privilege and send your outdated heteronormative views to the dustbin of history. You will take diversity/sensitivity training and fund a (insert victim group name here) studies department.

    I wonder how many bumper stickers this gal has on her car.

  2. This whole fiasco reminds me of how the people most likely to endorse the TNIV (Zondervan’s Bible translation that changed the gender of pronouns from male about 4000 times) were in Ivy League schools and Ivy League wannabe schools. Apparently, once your SAT scores tick above the 95th percentile, you become unable to understand the English language as was spoken a whole 20 years ago.

    Speaking of which, movie night must SUCK at the Ivies if they consistently eliminate older documents from their lives, and never hire an English major from the Ivies, I guess.

  3. The other day I followed this link from Instapundit: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness
    This describes a phenomenon that conservatives have known about for some time, namely that “progressivism” is a pseudo-religion confined to a certain segment of the bourgeois. It is not about universal truth, but the narrow interests of a socio-economic class. Basically, they hate the middle and working classes and want the resources that the capitalists get from them, whether it is their labor or their money.
    People will voluntarily choose to work for an employer who pays them for their time, or buy a consumer item they fancy. They won’t voluntarily work without compensation or eat dirt instead of steak. This is why the freedom of the poor and the working classes is the enemy of progressives.

  4. I used to drive a 1979 Ford Fiesta. It was the second funnest car I ever owned. Too bad it never occurred to me to make jokes about PARTY IN MY FIESTA, DUDES!

    Since it was essentially a German Ford, I wanted to do a take-off of the Renault LeCar and paint “DerKar” on the bottom of the doors, but I never got around to it.

    (and yes I know the PROPER gender to use would have been “Das”, I just think DerKar sounded better.)

  6. In related news, Carp from Asia can no longer be called Asian Carp. That is all…

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