06-22-2021, 04:03 AM
(06-21-2021, 04:18 PM)David Horn Wrote:(06-21-2021, 04:54 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: Juneteenth sounds so retarded. I understand the slaves, using African languages and having limited knowledge of English at the time, did not understand the phrase "June Nineteenth". "Emancipation Day" or "Black Independence Day" would be better names.
Relax. It's just slang in its purest form. Plus, it seems to have held, so it can't be bad in that sense.
Right. Languages change anyway, English is a corruption of Anglo-Saxon, which is a corruption of early Germanic, which is a corruption of Proto-Indo-European. Modern usages can sound retarded, like "woke cancel culture", which would be "awake cancellation culture" or even "culture of awake cancellation" in Victorian English, but maybe they are the harbingers of a new era in language evolution.
I acted like an archetypal grumpy Xer this time.
