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You did not have 'qoutes' around your points of contention..
by WATCHOUT
so but I did get your meaning after more 'contextual' analysis. In the German language nouns are CAPITALIZED and the ancient Greeks 'carvedtheirwritingtogethersot­heycouldgetmoreideasonamarblet­abletwhich wasexpensivetoproduce'. Imagine how the 'space' between words made words clearer to separate and understand, but used more marble tablet space. You have pointed the issue of the 'qoutes' out before, and I should refrain from that habit. although it helps my thinking on ideas in a sentence. For example, I might 'qoute' something and then note that my sentence emphasis is not emphasizing the 'idea' surrounded by qoutes. Thus the qoutes might act as a 'editing' guide where a word qouted for emphasis is more of a distraction if it is not supported by the contextual emphasis of the sentence where it is used. I should cease and desist, with more erudite readers. However, a new generation of readers raised on video games with all the 'noise of grunts and groans' might just be picking out the 'qouted words' and react to them not having the ability to put together the entire context of the sentence. My whole point of 'elitism' is that we still have a democratic 'illusion' that anyone can be a 'trained plumber' or 'president of the USA' and that the 'job' can be learned by 'on the job training'. Bush was 'put down' because he seemed to 'act dumb' even though well educated (?). But maybe he slept through his classes and his 'education' never really took? After Bush, we now want a president who is 'smarter than us', and he happends to be half-black/white and.... went to Harvard too where they give you a pretty good education.
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