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To: discostu

How very postmodern of you. True dat.


51 posted on 06/20/2012 7:13:04 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000

It’s not postmodern, it’s understanding reality. Language evolves, language has always evolved, language WILL always evolve. Just because somebody wrote a prescriptive people think that’s forever. It isn’t. Language is still going to evolve, maybe a little slower because now there’s a book teachers can point to, but it still will happen. People change, societies change, languages change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not, but change is inevitable. And complaining about it just says you’re stuck in the past, that you have failed to keep up.


58 posted on 06/20/2012 7:18:13 AM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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