[Magdalen] The word “me”

[Allan Carr]

Well, there are those born into the middle class and others, like myself, who fought our way up from poverty. Both my father and mother were uneducated and my father skipped out on his paranoid schizophrenic wife when I was eight, giving me a library card and telling me to read to keep sane living with my mother. So I did, later winning a college scholarship which wasn’t enough so I enlisted in the army for three years after which I used the GI bill and a lot of extra work to get through school to a BSc and MSc. I worked as a electronics engineer until I was 70.

In proof of my lower class origins, here’s my middle finger.
🖕🏻
Allan Carr


> On Jul 10, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Don Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Without getting into the propriety of using certain word forms in certain social environments, may I make this observation:
> 
>        We appear to be much more tolerant of other people exhibitIng religious beliefs or practices that differ from our own than we are  when other people speak or write English differently from the way we do.
> 
> I ask that you consider the possibility that this difference in toleration may be due to linguistic practices being markers of social class. 
> 
> Blessings on you all!
> 
> Don in Austin
> 
> Sent from my iPadC