[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Captainpaintball]

F'n Noam Chomsky is a linguist. That's all I need to know about their kind. And if I hear one more stupid kollege white boy 'axe' "Where you at?" one more time...

[Petronski]

Languages change. Get over it.

What an ass. Everything changes. The question is, does the language become richer (good)? Or does it become poorer (bad and happening now)?

How many kids now know the difference between "bring" and "take" as one small example?

[jellybean]

Bump for later...

[FreedomCalls]

I could care less.

Arrrggggh! That means you could care less. What you mean is "I couldn't care less."

[k2blader]

Incorrect contractions and homonyms irk me most.

[Ken H]

Here's a great resource for grammar, English usage, literature, and just about anything to do with the English language:

Bartleby.com

It'll learn you good.

[Centurion2000]

Yet despite all this talk of transformation the mother tongue has gone remarkably unchanged since the King James Version of the Bible began to stabilize the language in the mid-seventeenth century. Words come and go, yes, but a letter written 367 years ago by John Milton to Benedetto Bonomatthai reads much like one composed by a good writer today:

This is stupid. Go back 1000 years and english is unrecognizable. On the other hand, El Cid is readable in the original.

English is NOT a stable language.

[Smokin' Joe]

Language, being an important part of our national heritage, as well as our cultural identity, necessary [sic]says a great deal about what kind of people we are.

necessarily?

[Smartaleck]

Looking at the replies on here, it appears a couple of points implied in the article were missed?

1. PC language corrupts the thoughts and ideas of what peopel "really" mean. I suppose it does challenge people to use words creatively, but it also disguises content and meaning. Midget connotes much more than a person of small stature and doesn't corrupt the "usual" meaning of stature.

2. This use of euphemisms by the left moves us just that much further (or is it farther?) to an Owellian society of double speak. Articles implying such abound here on FR...the Democrats and the left repeatedly trivialize real concerns or matters of import by making everything important.

For example, a few descrepancies in Ohio are elevated to a national fraud on the election of the President.
Just about any matter that involves a person with dark skin pigment is "racism" and anyone who questions the validity of the assertion is automatically labeled a racist! Such tactics stiffles any type of intellectually honest debate. Yes, Conservatives can engage in this too.

[ken21]

interesting.

i guess collective nouns have been trashed because they're too difficult to teach in public skools and to immigrants.

however, i have trouble with one that i saw on the cover of a textbook at a community college:

peoples

1 people, 2 people, ....

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Conservatives always can try to emulate the French with their French Academy which keeps French pure (or tries to, anyway.) German and Spain have academies too.

[facedown]

kewl

[Junior]

My personal pet peeve is the use of "go" in place of "said." It sounds sophomoric.

[Pagey]

"...there is good reason to be skeptical of change, particularly when it comes about out of laziness and the dumbing-down of grammar rules..."

BUMP!!!

[Political Junkie Too]

All your language are belong to us.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Do u thnk 1 rezun s txt msg on cell fones?

-PJ