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Belafon11/26/2023 8:35:42 pm PST

A nextdoor post started with this:

We are losing our language!

In my day, it was suspicious, not sus!

…it was cuz (short for cousin), not cu!

In the future, we’ll just communicate in grunts and moans apparently!

A whole lot of people replied with various points about how languages evolved, including these:

Languages are always evolving. That’s why the farther back you go in English literature, the harder it is to read it. Even some books from the 1900s read so strange now. Some countries have language preservation laws on the books, but most Americans don’t speak a native tongue.

and one from me:

In my day, it was thou not you, it was pughny not puny, bad never meant good, texting wasn’t a word, googol was a number not the act of looking up information.

But one of them:

hat’s how life is. That’s why American English and England English are a bit different. It’s why Spain Spanish has an extra verb tense and different pronunciations than Spanish in Mexico. That’s why Russian and Ukrainian are so similar yet so different. Language evolves. That evolution is what makes etymology so fascinating.

Led to this reply, which got an inordinate number of likes:

That’s how life is?!? Same could be said about men in woman’s sports child trafficking and so on. Doesn’t make it better or acceptable. Sorry for those of you that get “triggered”

And yes, I replied to this idiot:

Um, wow, comparing the evolution of language to all that other stuff. Sorry, unless we’re going to speak Sanskrit, you’re already speaking an evolved language, in particular a language that not only grew from Latin, German, and Nomadic languages, but borrows words from other languages all the time. Facade, pinto, tsunami, and hundreds of thousands of other words.

And by the way, displaying how easily you allow tv (should I use television?) to manipulate you in a discussion on language is pretty telling.