The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157178   Message #3708439
Posted By: Lighter
12-May-15 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Rant... why don't people speak properly?
Subject: RE: BS: Rant... why don't people speak properly?
It seems to me that most of the problems mentioned here are instances of individual, even narrowly institutionalized, failings.

They aren't faults of "the language," which for at least 250 years is presumed to be continually "decaying" and being "corrupted."