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Xipe Totec

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15. Tsk, tsk. Complex and richly beautiful is one way to describe it

Reply to MANative (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 08:42 PM

Dec 2012

A gloming of multiple languages, an ever changing set of arbitrary rules is another.

English got to its present form by a continuous process of change.

Modern English would sound like gobbledygook to Shakespeare, and would be absolutely incomprehensible to Chaucer.

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R Grammar Gaffes Ruining The Language? Maybe Not [View all] ashling Dec 2012 OP

Yes CJCRANE Dec 2012 #1

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #2

Nearly killed myself bpositive Dec 2012 #7

Ha! I'll try. Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #13

As an ESL tutor I predict that we will see a change in the 3rd person singular, present tense CTyankee Dec 2012 #3

You and me show up in these threads all the times. MANative Dec 2012 #8

My students often tell me that they have RULES in their language and why don't WE? CTyankee Dec 2012 #14

Tsk, tsk. Complex and richly beautiful is one way to describe it Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #15

Some of that is interlanguage. Igel Dec 2012 #11

If somebody hadn't gotten lazy and sloppy somewhere along the line Speck Tater Dec 2012 #4

You have made the ultimate grammar mistake RebelOne Dec 2012 #10

Haha! You're right. Sort of. Speck Tater Dec 2012 #12

Punctuation ? Lokey Dec 2012 #16

Something like this, and not the influx of non-English speakers, will push me to... sadbear Dec 2012 #5

Does anyone know if the French allow this to happen to their language? sadbear Dec 2012 #6

Think about it this way. ananda Dec 2012 #9