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[sofa king]

20. I concur.

I wish I could remember the turn of phase used in colonial legal documents. In the 1600s it was something like "ye & yrs."

The colonists also appear to have taken advantage of that gap in the language, in order to conflate "your (tribally owned)" land with "your (owned by drunken tribal leader who can sign it away)" land.

It really pisses me off when I see folks being criticized for improving the functionality of our language by introducing needed pronouns, more accurate verb tenses, and subject-object gender agreement, or streamlining archaic medieval spelling, and so on.

Oh, I still have my pet peeves, like denoting a plural with an apostrophe, but those piss me off for the same reason, which is that they serve to muddle what is written, rather than to clarify.

As if our zip-tied and duct-taped pastiche needs to be protected, rather than fixed. But fixed or not, "changed" it definitely will be, even though our language evolves at the speed of its slowest, most inarticulate speaker.