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The Rockets’ Song (Free verse) by Dovina

Alignment with this war has awakened hope, for war is life to us, not death— romantic violence, chivalrous at last under technology’s rule. The President called as Pope Urban did, preaching the first Crusade, admonishing us, who waged wars for self-interest and plunder, to remake ourselves— Soldiers of Democracy, achievers of stature, of warrior nostalgia. I was fired with utopian ideals then, engaged in the tragedy of war, among frauds and adventurers —now a lingering silence—

zodiac 11-Dec-04/11:23 PM
Now try this:

If you think -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is some hopeless relic of the aristocracy because he uses obscure slangy expressions while you, Dovina, champion the proletariat by supporting dictionary definitions and disdaining slang, you're totally backwards. Besides, if you think that, you'll have utterly reversed/contraried yourself from your last month's bungled argument.

As everyone in the world knows, most slang expressions are made up by the poorer classes. It's in their interest, since it's a stick in the eye of the aristocracy, and since they probably won't get really get real language usage anyway. It's in the upper-classes' interest to defend dictionary definitions; besides, the aristocracy and people controlled by the aristocracy write dictionaries, so it's in their interest to include their own special meanings in them. You'll notice that in cases of slang expressions invented by the aristocracy (i.e., "Jolly good!" or the way many Brits say "Right!" every couple of seconds), the words are mostly used according to their dictionary definitions, while most proletarian slang terms I can think of depend on using a word removed from (or only slightly related to) its original meaning - like "to shag", "fucking", or "dyke".

In short, of course -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is a relic of the aristocracy. Everyone knows that. Unfortunately for you, that only means anything to someone who'd assign value to a person based on his class, which is called racist. And if you've proved anything here, it's just that -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. is an aristocrat badly imitating proletarian slang expressions and you're a proletarian (or middle-classer, more likely,) badly imitating aristocratic dictionary-love, which everybody knows already. And you come out a lot worse for it.




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