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Keyser Soze

On 9/15/16 1:20 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:01:46 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

At a certain point you have to "ax" yourself how much corruption of
the language is acceptable.

I don't know anything can stop the evolution of a living language, even
if that path leads it to "corruption."

That seems like a strange stance from an english major.
Isn't your job to educate and preserve the language? If we can just
make up words, ignore grammar and eschew proper spelling, why bother
to study the language at all.
At a certain point we will have placated the lowest common denominator
and devolved to pointing and grunting.

Ah, so you've been to a TeaParty or Trump rally!

Seriously, English has evolved tremendously in the centuries since its
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origins. It is unlikely you would have
understood many of the "English" words spoken by my favorite lady of
history,Eleanor of Acquitaine, and for many reasons.

Here's a sentence or two from Beowulf:

Sona þæt gesawon snottre ceorlas,
þa ðe mid Hroðgare on holm wliton,
þæt wæs yðgeblond eal gemenged,
brim blode fah. Blondenfeaxe,
gomele ymb godne, ongeador spræcon
þæt hig þæs æðelinges eft ne wendon
þæt he sigehreðig secean come
mærne þeoden; þa ðæs monige gewearð
þæt hine seo brimwylf abroten hæfde.