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Yes, language evolves torwars comfortability, written and spoken. What is incorrect today if used enough will become official. I watched a linguistics course o

by jayski 4y ago

Yes, language evolves torwars comfortability, written and spoken. What is incorrect today if used enough will become official. I watched a linguistics course online many years ago and that was my key take away. Water in french was originally something like "aqua", and it devolved into eau, all along the way people complained they were saying it wrong.

sandworm101 4y ago
Language also evolves away from easy of use. For instance, complexity and secrets are created to distinguish one class of speaker from another. Rules are invented for no higher reason than distinguishing those educated in them from those not. English is full of such rules, rules we base in deep history but on examination were the creation of 18th schoolmasters or book publishers. The King/Queens English? Most English monarchs barely spoke the language. They were far better with French or German.
- oxfeed65261 4y ago
  …or Old Norse (e.g. Cnut), or Dutch (William of Orange), any others?
  - sandworm101 4y ago
    Spanish, dutch ... they were products of european houses, few of which spoke any english.
- gumby 4y ago
  > Most English monarchs barely spoke the language. ^Most^Several Famously of course the first two Georges, perhaps William of Orange, definitely of course William the Conquerer and his immediate successors, but I think most is a gross exaggeration.
  - sandworm101 4y ago
    Read through any royal writings. English was almost never used. French is by far the most commonly used language of English royals.
    - gumby 4y ago
      For certain legal written uses. The claim that the King was also the monarch of France was only dropped from the official titles lat in the French revolution. Then again, the charter of my high school was signed by Charles I and is written in English, like all the other colonial era official documents I've seen (a small number!) were. But as a spoken language, there is plenty of evidence the other way. All the Tudors and Stuarts were English speakers, for example. I have heard that French was the vernacular of the late Romanovs, about which I am…dubious.

by jayski 4y ago

sandworm101 4y ago

Language also evolves away from easy of use. For instance, complexity and secrets are created to distinguish one class of speaker from another. Rules are invented for no higher reason than distinguishing those educated in them from those not. English is full of such rules, rules we base in deep history but on examination were the creation of 18th schoolmasters or book publishers. The King/Queens English? Most English monarchs barely spoke the language. They were far better with French or German.

oxfeed65261 4y ago
…or Old Norse (e.g. Cnut), or Dutch (William of Orange), any others?
- sandworm101 4y ago
  Spanish, dutch ... they were products of european houses, few of which spoke any english.
gumby 4y ago
> Most English monarchs barely spoke the language. ^Most^Several Famously of course the first two Georges, perhaps William of Orange, definitely of course William the Conquerer and his immediate successors, but I think most is a gross exaggeration.
- sandworm101 4y ago
  Read through any royal writings. English was almost never used. French is by far the most commonly used language of English royals.
  - gumby 4y ago
    For certain legal written uses. The claim that the King was also the monarch of France was only dropped from the official titles lat in the French revolution. Then again, the charter of my high school was signed by Charles I and is written in English, like all the other colonial era official documents I've seen (a small number!) were. But as a spoken language, there is plenty of evidence the other way. All the Tudors and Stuarts were English speakers, for example. I have heard that French was the vernacular of the late Romanovs, about which I am…dubious.