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News Story: Student Docked 25 points for saying Bless You!
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 465269" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I agree with all of you. It is just an automatic social communication tool. It now means something like...hope you're ok. It is as automatic as when we say, How are you? in passing... that simply means "hi" a lot of the time. Actually, in our area if you really listen phonetically....people say BLESHYOU. It is kind of a one word response. And if it is not said--since it is such a common thing-- the person may feel ignored and hurt.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If we dissect every word or phrase we use now, and only want to use what it meant in the past it would be overwhelming. Think of all the idioms, slang and other conversational conventions.....Maybe the teacher is a difficult child? Sounds really rigid and rule bound.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 465269, member: 12886"] [SIZE=1][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]I agree with all of you. It is just an automatic social communication tool. It now means something like...hope you're ok. It is as automatic as when we say, How are you? in passing... that simply means "hi" a lot of the time. Actually, in our area if you really listen phonetically....people say BLESHYOU. It is kind of a one word response. And if it is not said--since it is such a common thing-- the person may feel ignored and hurt. If we dissect every word or phrase we use now, and only want to use what it meant in the past it would be overwhelming. Think of all the idioms, slang and other conversational conventions.....Maybe the teacher is a difficult child? Sounds really rigid and rule bound.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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