The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99614   Message #1986888
Posted By: folk1e
05-Mar-07 - 10:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
Don't forget any language that is relevant will eveolve. You (and I) may not like the particular use it is put to at the moment but just consider what it would be like if we all talked in "old english"
Personaly I get an inordinate amount of humour from hearing my American friends attempt to say words that are imported from "forign" languages and therefore spelt differently!

Life Bueoy   Boy / Beueouey
Alluminium   Al u min ium / Alluminum
Birmingham   Birmingam / Birming ham

Then again I expect they quite enjoy my mangling of "their" lexicon.
I suppose that all language (eccept Legaleese) is a form of communication and if the meaning is conveyed the purpose is served!