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Originally Posted by Quexos
I don't think that this degeneracy of the English language should be allowed. The problem here is how the wrong expression came to be, only because those using it do not realize that they were using it wrongly. This is not some cultural evolution, this is just a plain wrong use of the language and if mistakes like this are allowed then the rules and syntax that make a language have no reason to be anymore and we might as well
"right wordz and ixpresionz witchever way we wants if there is no rulez and liturater wiz it's good uzes of language will hav no special meanning becose thos that cant use proper words or ixpresionz hav they're wrong wayz becoming write and mainstrim uses"
I for one do not wish to see that happen even if it can be argued that it's already happening.
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It doesn't matter whether or not you "allow" it, there's nothing anyone can do about it. There's no "degeneration" in language, changes taking place today are every bit as much cultural changes as every other change in language. The reason we aren't speaking Indo-European today is because of these kind of "errors". Language has rules, but they are
discovered rather than imposed. Dante did not write in a degenerate form of Latin. Changes that fail to communicate information will be abandoned.