We have been watching with interest the ongoing debate in Speculative Grammarian over the so-called “ultimate truth” of cosmolinguology. The arguments for and against the various linguistic bangs, crunches, rips, freezes, and bounces have been fascinating, but all are ultimately hollow and meaningless because they are made by theolinguistically uniformed physicolinguists. Even an amoral neo-
Chachu’s linguistic singularity denies the psycholinguistohistory of our species, and his multiverse is patently absurd. Several of Nibiru’s doomsday scenarios are plausible, though his understanding of the causes and purposes thereof is theolinguistically immature. They are symptoms of the Great Lip Flapping (also know as the Trillbulation) that will be inflected upon the wretched speakers among us who have not seen the Light of the One True Way. Those who follow the Light will be lifted Langue and Parole to the Greatest Vowel Height in the Linguistic Rapture. Those left behind for the Trillbulation will suffer greatly as, one by one, the Seven Silent Letters are Spoken, and the Four Hortatives of the Apocope
Only the faithful, the pure, and the true will be taken up to the Greatest Vowel Height in the Linguistic Rapture. So, teach your children well. Protect them from the dangers of modal stacking, infixation examples in English, and rap music and the barbarism of -izzle. Avoid neologism and libertine prescriptivists. Use semicolons and the passive voice correctly, or not at all. In the words of St. William of Safire, “Speak as ye wouldst write, but do not write as ye wouldst speak, for the lazy tongue can misguide even the most diligent hand.”
Amen.
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