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You're suggesting we revert to Chaucer's English because linguistic drift is bad? I'm as much a hater of overuse of jargon as the next person, but for his inte

• mc32 11y ago
  No, it's simpler English. It's not trying to put artificial distance between speaker and audience. There is a power component to these language queues. It's like the difference between legalese and regular English.
  • phpnode 11y ago
    * cues