Claim 9781e54c
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“Criminalising the language of Shakespeare is an appalling thing to do.”
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“Making the use of English a criminal offense is appalling.”
The claim evaluates making English use criminal as “appalling,” expressing a value judgment about the policy rather than a testable fact or causal relationship.
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Listen, I was a commodity broker, right? We bought and sold copper in US cents per pound or in deutschmarks per tonne. I have absolutely no problem working with both systems – you know, 2.20462 is deeply embedded in my brain. I just happen to think that to criminalise the language of Shakespeare is an appalling thing to do – and actually sums up, really, everything that is wrong with this European entanglement.
You ask [your greengrocer] for a pound of bananas. If he weighs them out and sells them to you, he’ll have broken the law. Steve Thoburn from Sunderland got a criminal record for it and died at the age of 39 because of the hassle. Who needs to live in a country like that?
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