I have no objection to change except for the changes I don't like. Fair
enough.
100 years from now, crotchety old guys will be bewailing the loss of the
usages that you find so ugly today.
Moose
andrew fildes wrote:
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.
Change is inevitable, dpays no attention to our preferences and makes no
excuses.
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