Do you agree that modern English is being deliberately corrupted? Maybe by Americans and their various demographics or by its use as an international technocratic language? Can anyone recommend some books on this subject, from any era?
Do you agree that modern English is being deliberately corrupted?
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The key strength of English has always been its flexibility and inclusiveness.
you mean 'people' being too fricking stupid to learn there's a difference between 'they', 'their', 'they're' and 'there'? and cucks like you who pander to it with lame excuses, or do you mean the highly orchestrated politically motivated relentless push to change the definitions of words in order to demonise certain demographics? either way, frick you shit muncher
>Do you agree that modern English is being deliberately corrupted?
Yes. See "gay", "spokesperson", "homophobia", "Holocaust", "BCE" and so on.
>Maybe by Americans and their various demographics or by its use as an international technocratic language?
Not exactly.
>Can anyone recommend some books on this subject, from any era?
There aren't any, obviously. It would be worth writing one. If you want to try, you have my axe.
>The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708,[5] and became more widely used in the mid-19th century by israeli religious scholars.
Getting into the definitions of modern English is a bit hairy, most of the countries that speak it as a primary language don't have laws defining it. In America it is not technically the official language since there isn't one for instance. If you are talking about Websters throwing in new words every year and all of them being moronic for the past decade or 2 then yeah I would agree, and I would also say Americans have a heaping portion of blame for this, but otherwise the default answer is it is evolving to fit the need it was initially created for.
Not a book, but Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language is a must read.
*ahem*
'ate latinisms
'ate the press
'ate the educated class
'luv me good ol' ingerland
'luv me germanic root words
simple as, just another day in the life of a true bexit greezer!
*ends broadcast*
why's he look so much like groucho marx
Because you have face blindness.
nah he looks like him
got the mustache and hair
nta. I also think you're a fricking moron.
i mean WITHOUT the makeup you git
you sound extremely mentally ill
Oh boy, I wish a 300 pound doofus were here to lecture me on Atheism
THAT is what my life is missing out on.
even fricking worse lmao. what's wrong with you?
>pulls up an old timey photo and not his friar's club roast content in the 60s
yup it's a moron LMFAO
you're only embarrassing yourself
old british man smokes cigar same person
My daughter is a fat mexican bawd and she posts nude photographs on the internet.
Many such cases
anyone know any books about the degeneration of language in general, as opposed to english in particular?
not op btw
Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk by Postman might be interesting for you
Also there was another one but I forgot
Ebonics is ruining English. Who made it okay? Burgers
>Burgers are to blame
We are just as much a victim in this as anyone.
English is dying due to the fact that no one teaches phonics, diction or etymology anymore. This is not a linguistic issue, it's an educational one. It has been a deliberate attempt to corrupt the populace, just like the adoption of Common Core and Affirmative Action
I had someone correct my spelling of the word ''through''.
>It's spelled ''T-H-R-U''.
The absolute state. And, yes, she was sincere. I have had others argue that ''through'' and ''threw'' should be spelled the same since they are pronounced the same.
I don't believe it. I refuse to believe it.
I wonder how I would react in that scenario
>I refuse to believe it.
She used the illustration of the word ''thru'' on the sign for a fast food ''drive thru'' as empirical evidence of my error. For reference, the entire situation arose from my correction of ''thru'' in text that was sent to us by a customer when I was working enlarging art for billboards. The customer apparently originated the error, the team that generated the mechanical did not fix it, and our management did not catch it during sales review. The gears are spinning - I also caught ''tomorrow'' being spelled ''tomarrow''. I had to break out a dictionary to convince management that my correction was valid.
I'll be honest, I'm an English major and I still sometimes panic trying to remember the difference between verbs like lay/lied/laid.
Postman talks about the oral tradition in some of his books as well.
Postman cites Ong more than once.
>anime addict makes a stupid post
wow!
Orality and Literacy, by Walter J. Ong.
English already is a corrupted language. English is what happens when you steal bits of other peoples language and then get pissed because others wont speak it around you
the second part of that statement is underrated
Are you offended that English makes use of terms foreign to the Anglosphere? Can you give some particularly offending examples?
I do agree with that. Furthermore I think literature is being corrupted. Authors are shamed to write politically correct stories rather than the stories they would like to write.
speak Anglish then
>Do you agree that modern English is being deliberately corrupted?
Yes
its the mutts and those yiddish lads
No. It's the israelites and their pet Black folks. The way the mayor of London is talking, you are probably not too far behind us in our descent.
Whatever I've barely slept they're similar in both role as humans and looking old and both are glasseswearers
There's no conspiracy about it; it's just part of the competency crisis.
IQ has been steadily dropping since the end of the 19th century and it's projected to drop by another 25 points by the end of this one.