>The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice. In a certain sense the spoken form of a language is its true form. The written form are rules

>The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice. In a certain sense the spoken form of a language is its true form. The written form are rules that get frozen at an artificially defined moment in time, but the spoken language keeps evolving. Another way to look at this is that writing systems are a relatively new phenomena for humans. In terms of time scale, if you consider that spoken language has been around for 24 hours, writing has only existed since about 11ish pm.