Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Grammar Nazi CONFRONTS Me!" video.

  1. You not only are what you eat, you are what you see, and it's best to be proper and precise all the time.
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  2. This is definitely my favorite video of the day because it's about the language we are all trying to use. The uninvited spell-check I endure is designed to homogenize the English language as an American entity. For me, the most common mistake is always using 's, not s'. My clan system goes back to before the English language was defined for the kings and queens of a new empire. When they were invited to attend a wedding in Scotland, they were more than surprised by the awe-full human activity they witnessed. Awe-full become awful, as in bad and offal as in manure. My name, John, is ancestral for me, after John the Baptist. A john became a man walking the streets looking for a prostitute and a word for toilet. This debater of phonetics has to be the most polite call-in caller I've heard on You Tube, and David Pakman was there word for word. Bay-an-uck-let, blessings on you in the language of the Garden of Eden. They don't teach our history over here, Americans just like to argue over what to believe. Sometimes it's about the words you don't use, especially as a follower of Jesus of Nazareth and His family. If our eyes are the windows to our souls, why, in the entire New Testament, doesn't it tell you what happened when you looked into the eyes of Jesus of Nazareth? If you know the answer you understand "The Living Word".
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  3. @Hustle Band I must confess you had me reaching for my dictionary. You weren't fooling around when you said etymology, an awe-full word, and you weren't just being ass-toot, blowing it out your ass, you are astute as an English judge. Were you a cleric in a past life?
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  4. @Hustle Band Uh... right now I'm not researched enough to present an appropriate, historic reply, considering you are a self-declared lector. I can define "holy mackerel", seeing Gordon Ramsay, a good Scot, saying it. When the Roman Empire became the Holy Roman Empire they needed a new logo, something easy to carve and paint. They took the Greek symbol for infinity, and I stress, not eternity, that looks like a stretched out sideways number eight. They chopped half of the right-side of the symbol off, saying it looked like the Jewish fish symbol. When Scots saw that coming they called it holy mackerel, mackerel being a fertilizer fish. Romans created an empire myth about Romulus and Remus, two young boys raised by a female wolf. That inspired the word "dogma". I heartily recommend reading "The Media is The Message", by Professor Marshall McCluhan, who invented the term "global village". When The Testament of the Third Millennium is being compiled, he could be a chapter. I can see you editing that down to size.
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