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What’s the rationale for keeping it? English should try to be at least a little bit easier parse for a newbie.
by cwilkes 7y ago
What’s the rationale for keeping it? English should try to be at least a little bit easier parse for a newbie.
- darkpuma 7y agoOne man trying to dictate the direction of a language used by a billion people... that's just not going to happen. Not that I don't sympathize. I think that "it's" should be the possessive form of 'it', not a contraction of 'it is'. Maybe if we band together we can force-feed both our changes at once to the rest of the world?
- BoorishBoor 7y agoI'm sure you also write "hi's" and "her's" because, if not, you are advocating for making English more irregular and not less.
- cameronbrown 7y agoLanguages by definition are fluid. If a certain way of spelling a word or grammatical structure spreads to become popular (possibly, yes, from one person), then it becomes the new normal.
- darkpuma 7y agoEnglish is fluid like the tides are fluid. The chance that somebody can dictate the direction of that tide is very slim.