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June 15, 2004
Grammatical irregularity
Susanna Dokupil on Supreme Court & Pledge of Allegiance on National Review Online
"One nation, under God, invisible...."
Perhaps we all remember the day those mysterious words we memorized by rote suddenly started to make sense. Republik. Forwichit. InDIvisible. After years of incantation, the concepts finally crystallized into a powerful statement encapsulating the core principles of our country.One man tried to take that experience away.
The reason making sense of that passage is so difficult is the weird enjambment of "under god" into a foreign place. I remember distinctly the day I realized that "indivisible" attached it self to "one nation", and not to "god". If we remove "under god" only to clarify this point, well, I could live with that...
Posted by Andrew at June 15, 2004 12:23 PM
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Heh. I was already saying th epledge when Congress jammed "under God into what used to be a rhythmic statement". I was *not* happy. Even my Kindergarten ear could hear that it had been badly screwed up.
Many and many years in school, I just plain left out those two words, so great was my offense.
Scorpio
Eccentricity
Posted by: Scorpio at June 16, 2004 05:56 PM