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I haven't read any of Larry Correia's books (AFAIK), and I don't visit his blog, but I know from previous comments that a number of readers here do. My previous inattention may have been an oversight.
I say that, because for some reason which I cannot recall, I happened to drop by there the other day, and scrolled down to this post from Feb. 22:
Who Needs High School English When You Can Have Social Justice Instead?
Bearing in mind who's telling you this, and our own bona fide credentials in this sport, in case you are one of the ten or so people in the English-speaking world who apparently hasn't read what appears there, hie thee thenceward, in order to witness quite simply one of the most beautiful and masterful rants in the English language, from someone who is clearly a maestro of the genre.
He simultaneously deconstructs the offending indoctrination, defends the teaching of our mother tongue, and plays whack-a-mole like a ten-armed Kali with a bag of sledgehammers on every silly ass notion and retarded argument in a performance the like of which has not been seen since Michael York debuted as D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers.
★★★★★ Five stars. Highly recommended. (Correia's rant, and the movie.)
11 comments:
Oh, you have been missing a treat.
Any time Larry starts a slap down, it's time to put the beverages down to preserve the keyboard and screen. When you have some leisure time, check out his blog archives for classic slam fests on trolls and other such. His targets have included SJW's, gun control twits, and RINOs (some overlap I know).
His fiction books are a great read as well and highly recommended by me. His Monster Hunter International series starts off with answering the question "What happens when monster/horror movies cross paths with People of The Gun".
"Oh, you have been missing a treat."
Clearly so, if the English/SJW essay is anything by which to judge him.
Larry Correia isn't known as the International Lord of Hate for nothing!
Here are a couple of clips from the Monster Hunter International series.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2010/10/30/a-halloween-public-service-annocement-from-monster-hunter-international/
https://www.baen.com/tanya
Yup, Larry hits 'em out of the park on a regular basis.
And I recently rewatched the old Three Musketeers. Great stuff, great fun. I remember being 8 and pretending to be Porthos.
One of his less ranting and more informative pieces, on gun control, he reposts occasionally on his blog site. The link is:
https//:monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/23/an-opinion-on-gun-control-repost/
He is a prolific writer who writes to and for his audience, who are pleased and entertained well enough to provide him with much folding applause.
Highly recommended.
John in Indy
For anyone interested in sampling his works, check out baen.com. Many of his books have the first 2 - 4 chapters posted there as a tease.
Opie Odd
Great writers, like great speakers, stand head-and-shoulders above the crowd as a giraffe in a herd of wildebeest.
The more so in the US of A: when I first came to America, a few months short of fifty years ago, I was old enough to be set in my language. I had to unlearn English. My parents had been commissioned officers in the Royal Indian Army, and could not sepak each other's native Indian vernacular (Bengali and Telegu) and so English was my first language. I do find it amusing that folks take English courses in America.
A person who speaks more than one language and develops dementia loses the last language first and retains the first language the longest. I natively speak English and Urdu (= having no recollection of learning them) and so would perhaps keep them for awhile.
You happened upon one of his most controlled rants. I encourage standard keyboard protective cautions when you find one where he really gets worked up.
Also, he is a former handgun instructor, played the “bad guy” for police training, was a competitive piston shooter (favors STI) and once helped to run a place that acquired full auto guns for resale to Hollywood.
He knows his stuff and ain’t afraid to show it.
Grouch!
How are ya, doc?
Long time no see.
I was impressed by that one post enough to link it on the spot.
He doesn't post daily, but I'll have to drop in over there more often.
That one was a beaut.
In 1985 Morgan was a backwater of less than 6000 souls. Land was plentiful and therefore cheap and the high school rodeo team was the biggest thing going. It took a while but the advent of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City began the transformation of all the small communities in the 48 miles between Morgan and there. Farms and ranches have been annihilated by big dollars and the ensuing mega mansions, condos and gated communities. See also Sun Valley, Idaho and Big Sky, Montana.
Billionaires bought out the millionaires decades ago.
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