http://plasmapool.org/2009/04/29/linguistic-purism-is-an-exercise-in-futility/ a set of sharp and cogent notes Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:19:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://plasmapool.org/2009/04/29/linguistic-purism-is-an-exercise-in-futility/comment-page-1/#comment-2687 Sour Apples » Blog Archive » Idiocracy Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:58:08 +0000 http://plasmapool.org/?p=2446#comment-2687 [...] Language has survived this far, and it will continue to survive indefinitely–if in slightly di.... Common ‘pet peeves’ are actually symptoms of language change. For example, the inability to correctly execute the traditional distinction between ‘lay’ and ‘lie,’ pronouncing ‘pillow’ to rhyme with ‘fellow,’ and contractions like ‘gonna’ are signals of things to come: the next stage of English. [...] [...] Language has survived this far, and it will continue to survive indefinitely–if in slightly di…. Common ‘pet peeves’ are actually symptoms of language change. For example, the inability to correctly execute the traditional distinction between ‘lay’ and ‘lie,’ pronouncing ‘pillow’ to rhyme with ‘fellow,’ and contractions like ‘gonna’ are signals of things to come: the next stage of English. [...]

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