Both assertions there are false. There are lots of loan words (are those mistakes?), new words (like internet -- a mistake?), plain disagreements (I am strongly

Both assertions there are false. There are lots of loan words (are those mistakes?), new words (like internet -- a mistake?), plain disagreements (I am strongly in favor of the Oxford comma yet apparently intelligent people disagree), and different grammatical structures surviving from historical sources. Remember, there are Appalachian dialects based on Elizabethan English [1]. Should we all switch to that, since it's more "authentically" English? I bet they don't have words for half the foods you could eat in San Francisco. Evolution is not always just by way of mistakes! [1] http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh30-2.html http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh30-2.html