The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64021 Message #1046382
Posted By: Peace
02-Nov-03 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: NPR - degradation of language & music
Subject: RE: NPR - degradation of language & music
And on the other other hand, I enjoyed your poem, Thomas.
OK, your point's well taken. But recall the time we had when bad meant good (Michael Jackson?), cool became hot (as in "s/he's cool" in the sixties to "s/he's hot" in the zeros), and 'doh' makes it into the dictionary and the back formation of 'link' as the singular for the cat of the plural name (lynx) doesn't. I agree that dictionaries are not an enemy of language, but they are often not its ultimate arbiter, either.
Good rhyme you wrote, by the way.