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undyingking) wrote2009-01-20 09:30 am
undyingking) wrote2009-01-20 09:30 am
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If you're reading this in English
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languagelog about a bumper sticker saying "If you can read this, thank a teacher. And if you're reading it in English, thank a soldier."
I won't reiterate the discussion there1 -- but I wondered if anyone had seen this sentiment expressed in the UK, where it would make a lot more sense as a proposition, in relation to WWII2. Has anyone in the UK seen or heard of the teachers' message being added to / hijacked in this way?
1 Except to say that I favour the "ill-thought-out generalized right-wing puffery" theory.
2 Of course one might argue that Battle of Britain aircrew, naval convoys, or Russians, were more to thank, but leave that for now.
languagelog about a bumper sticker saying "If you can read this, thank a teacher. And if you're reading it in English, thank a soldier."I won't reiterate the discussion there1 -- but I wondered if anyone had seen this sentiment expressed in the UK, where it would make a lot more sense as a proposition, in relation to WWII2. Has anyone in the UK seen or heard of the teachers' message being added to / hijacked in this way?
1 Except to say that I favour the "ill-thought-out generalized right-wing puffery" theory.
2 Of course one might argue that Battle of Britain aircrew, naval convoys, or Russians, were more to thank, but leave that for now.
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You know... if you printed a batch of those bumper stickers, and advertised them online, I would be willing to bet that even in this economic climate, you would make a mint. Of course if you did, and someone subsequently hunted you down and killed you for it, pour discourager les autres* (as it were), I'd have only limited sympathy!
*It's not pretension! It's contextual irony, honest!