The Language Police Live Inside of My Head


	The Language Police Live Inside of My Head

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5-31-2007 1:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4087439d-6fa7-4653-9231-e60c7a1f6079/4146D917-E42D-45BD-96D3-406A42785EBF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html" href="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.strike-the-root.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.strike-the-root.com/img/976C3EC3-646F-44F0-80B7-72ED4F3A9B22" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html"><B><I>The
        Language Police</I> Live Inside of My Head</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html"><B>by
        <A href="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/mailto:bchapafl@hotmail.com">Bernard Chapin</A></B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html"><FONT face="Georgia" color="#000000">Last
          year I was previewing a textbook that I was about to use in a Human
          Development course I was teaching.<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>The book was the usual flamboyant montage of facts, grids, and
          pictures, but then I suddenly ran across a most unusual sentence.<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>It read, “As a folksinger once sang, how many roads must an
          individual walk down before you can call them an adult.”<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>I was stupefied.<SPAN> </SPAN><O:P _moz-userdefined="">
           </O:P>
          </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin15.html">Of
          course, I realized that they were quoting from a Bob Dylan song that
          was a hit on its own and later one for Peter, Paul, and Mary.<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>The lyrics in actuality are: “how many roads must a man walk
          down before you can call him a man.”<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>At first I wondered how they could legally get away with doing
          what they did, but then I noticed that they had not identified the
          singer or used quotation marks around the line they cited.<SPAN> 
          </SPAN>I wondered why anyone would do such a thing</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4146D917-E42D-45BD-96D3-406A42785EBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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