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Yeah, this is what I liked about it too. I like the idea of common English evolving on time scales at which it may legitimately become mutually incomprehensible
by neltnerb 12y ago
Yeah, this is what I liked about it too. I like the idea of common English evolving on time scales at which it may legitimately become mutually incomprehensible over the course of my lifetime.
Language isn't static, and I love the idea of more versatile forms with fewer rules providing new generally accepted grammars for creative writing. I also like how this change in English seems to be fascinatingly in the direction of several Asian languages where sections are dropped if they are considered obvious enough. Although English has its own charms in having so much more flexibility in word ordering, it's not as succinct in allowing for dropped sections.
I'm afraid that people who get pissed off about the singular "they" or other such conventions are going to very rapidly be incapable of communicating with younger people at all. That's fascinating to think about.