We have to stop this tragic corruption of the English language, to protect our childen's delicate ears and aesthetic sensibilities. Why, a mere few months ago, I encountered a child of no more than 10 singing along to "You Can Build A Mainframe From The Things You Find At Home" - corrupted by the adults in his environment into praising equipment that should never have been built by mankind and should be allowed to lie still, undiscovered for the rest of history. And this poor child knew all the words. Shocking. Our public schools have clearly failed to educate him correctly.
***************************** "GEEKONICS" IS JUST A BEGINNING by John Woestendiek Philadelphia Inquirer Wed., January 8, 1997 ***************************** ..... Controversial and widely misunderstood, the Geekonics movement was spawned in California's Silicon Valley, where many children have grown up in households headed by computer technicians, programmers, engineers and scientists who have lost ability to speak plain English and have inadvertently passed on their high-tech vernacular to their children.
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