In article <f69874c8-48f6-4696-8678-c2a761f2f...@googlegroups.com>, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Saturday, January 3, 2015 4:39:25 AM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> I used to get very confused watching the old westerns. The child when >> talking about "more" and "paw" wasn't referring to possibly an >> adjective, noun or adverb and a part of an animal, but what we would >> refer to in the UK as "mum" and "dad" :) > >Early Americans are easy to satirize since most were >schooled at home by illiterate parents. I believe the >"redneck vernacular" substituted "mother" and "father" for >"maw" and "paw" respectively. Which is not surprising since >most uneducated folks tend to favor single syllable >simplifications of words over their multi-syllable >counterparts. > >Widespread centralized free schooling did not exists until >almost the 1900's. Heck, looking back at American history, >the world *SHOULD* be in awe. To go from a rag-tag >illiterate bunch of cowboys, to the worlds most powerful and >technically advanced society (in roughly one hundred years!) >has to be the most amazing transformation in the history of >the human society.
It isn't. The Russian transformation under Stalin from a feodalist society with wooden plows to atomic bombs and space travel is. Most capitalist politicians are reluctant to admit this, but e.g. Churchill recognized this. A comboy on horse back who has ever seen a revolver is a far cry in backwardness from a feodalist peasant who *expects* to be flogged by a knut. Feodalism goes to the brain, like slavery does. (It took generations for the US negroes to shed of their slavery inheritance. ) Groetjes Albert -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
