Synopsis "A Canadian's Poems (in English)"
a canadian's poems is a selection of 51 poems. The following prose excerpts are from the book's introductory Preface."Man has used his vocal chords to communicate with for hundreds of thousands of years. There are now hundreds of millions of different words in use on our planet. Billions of us utter trillions of them every day, both in spoken and written forms. Writing is a recent invention. The current, earliest known forms of it are cave drawings, found all over the world. They're only a few tens of thousands of years old.""English is a ten seconds to midnight latecomer on the linguistic stage. Written English did not receive its current brand of codified grammar until the mid nineteenth century. Our current standard form did not exist before then. Our greatest writers, Shakespeare and Milton, never studied grammar. It didn't exist in any code until at least a century after them. Neither are there any grammar books on oral English usage at all.""More than 1,000 million people currently use English. There are no more than 300 million users of English in the USA, and 60 million in the UK. International English, used by more than 600 million people today, is its new norm. International English is a complex of hybrids created by users whose mother tongues are not English. Often their mother tongues are very different from English.""In our new chatterverse of www., ruled by algorithms not phonetics, there's no past, no future, no localized position. Everything is here, now, everywhere. So, complex, fragmented verb formations and tenses implode into present simple reality. The A or B positional logic of prepositions becomes illogical, and unnecessary. In everywhere there is no longer any pre-position anywhere."
