I thought everyone might find this interesting. Most Americans (especially most people in highschool) have never once heard of Canada being in the news, or perhaps they just don't care, because, for crying out loud, its Canada! And what is even more interesting is that Canada has a battleship! I have two links for this... a satirical one and an actual news source.
Really you may be wondering "what is her point?!" Or maybe you just didn't know that Canada DOES go to war? well my point is to question our understanding of modern countries around us. We need to ask ourselves, 'am i really paying enough attention to the news? am i an educated being?'
And really more in depth, if you dont feel like reading the article or are for some reason unable to, why do we have so much fun joking about Canada, eh? How come we don't know anything about the countries that are directly above and below us, more specifically, how can we joke about it if we know almost zip about it? its as if we dont take an interest. Because nothing's interesting!
Links to learn about Canada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Forces
http://www.satirewire.com/news/feb02/warship.shtml
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/focus/canada-us/backgrounder_e.asp
The second link is for entertainment and to get you interested in the issue. i highly recommend reading the second link, its my favorite.
Another intriguing question to ask ourselves is 'what are satirists up to these days, and how are our actions affecting what they choose to satirize?'
Hope this gets you into satire! If not, I hope that it makes you think about Canada so that it doesnt disappear from the face of the Earth.
Meredith Salimbeni
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I. I. I. I. I. I. Capital I denotes you as a person "i" is an imaginary number meaning the square root of -1. You mean to be using I. God's sake, just for that I'm not posting on this today.
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About me. or about E, or...? Sorry, but while we're talking about language elsewhere on the site, I'm going to rant about a Greoning concept. I believe that IM is slowly destroying our language, and soon we'll be communicating via "lol" "Jk" "rotfl", etc. Thus, I find it my duty to keep some dignity alive in the English language, at least while I'm alive. Mark twain/Samuel Clemmens would be rolling in his grave.
P.S: I don't necessarily care if "rotfl" is an actual IM phrase.
Alright, have your own view. I can see with your eyes, and I think you can see with mine. I personally feel it is more than a certain change in writing instruments, it's causing language to be a series of letters and numbers thrown together. If you wish to discuss this further, start a new post.
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