On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:42 +0200, Thijs van severen
wrote:
PS : it's not just music that sounds the same
... the same goes for
email !!
It always was and still is the same. An older generation doesn't like
the art of the new generation. When the idiots didn't understand that a
comic has pictures + words to tell a story, the teachers just read out
First off, that remark was directed at me because I posted a link which
had already been posted. The assumption being I read *every* message. :)
After searching, I noticed *one* of the links I posted was in another
message AND had a different subject. Pointed out by a top poster, to top
it all off!! :-)
the text of mainstream comics to ridicule all comics.
First mistake, a
comic isn't based on words only, second mistake, for all popular arts,
comics, music etc., there's more than just the mainstream.
Have you ever seen a "Commando", or any of those war type comics?
"Arrrgh!!!", "Grunt!", Rat a tat tat!!! "Kill the hun!!!"
aren't
actually replacements for a book, like "Biggles", or "The Wind in the
Willows" etc.
Comics or whatever they call them now may have changed, but so has the
standard of English which is so freely (ab)used.
--
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X