The opening sentence - the opening sentence, mind you - of today's Dennis Prager column:
One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word "earn."
The man evidently knows no foreign language, and, what is more, does not expect any of his readers to. Incidentally, whatever he was paid for this column was not money well earned.
One of the reasons for the ascendance of the English-speaking world has been that the English language is almost alone among major languages in having the word "earn."
The man evidently knows no foreign language, and, what is more, does not expect any of his readers to. Incidentally, whatever he was paid for this column was not money well earned.
Re: Way Way Way Off Topic
Date: 2009-04-24 10:52 pm (UTC)It is midnight in Britain now, and I am going to sleep. So I have no time to answer this as it needs. I will do my best to write an essay on the historicity of Jesus myself, and point you to further sources. Tell your cousins that dimwit movies by ignorant Hollywood types are not worth their weight in excrement as evidence. Would he trust their account of, say, some World War Two episode? Would he Hell, and he would be right.