No objection to the dynamic changes in language at all. Just
pig-ignorant errors which creep into common usage! I cheerfully
embrace reasonable split-infinitives, for example. My own dialect has
changed, not to mention my ideolect and ethnolect. :) I even bought a
digital camera, dammit.
Some neologisms are reasonable and some shifts are attractive or
sensible but many changes are more complex, more obscure and just
downright uglier than the words or expressions that they replace. No
excuse can be made for that.
Andrew
Different dialects of English are spoken in different parts of
England, of the UK and of the world. None of the dialects are the
same as they were 100 years ago, or a hundred years before that or a
hun............zzzzz.
Living languages change, like all living things. Why not just get
over it, rejoice in speaking a living, vibrant language and enjoy
the new bud, flowers, shoots and branches.
If you don't want your language to change, take up a dead one.
Moose
andrew fildes wrote:
That's a common American usage I think. One of my pet horrors. The
confusion of 'In a moment' for 'For a moment.' Shudder. It's
rapidly becoming the accepted use (not while I live and breathe)
It doesn't care.
, like the substitution of 'pressurised' for 'pressured.'
My US English spell checker agrees with me on a spelling of
'pressurized'. In California, the two words have different usages.
If I put a cartridge that is filled with CO2 compressed beyond one
atmosphere in a vise and squeeze it, I putting pressure on a
pressurized container. We would never say pressurizing a pressured
container. I suggest that this is a useful distinction. A quick look
at a dictionary site suggests that pressurize may only apply to gas
or liquid, which would fit the above example. It is also used around
here in a metaphoric sense, as in describing a room full of
emotional tension as a 'pressurized atmosphere'.
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