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[Matthew Clarke]

I'm betting the expert would say that some of the best words in the
English language were created by people being
lazy/illiterate/drunk/crazed, etc...  also known as
playful/creative/poetic...  ;)

modern living languages are just a protracted and diverse instance of
the "telephone game", with meanings, spellings, usages shifting
constantly with regard to time and place (and soberness).  "Right" and
"wrong" in that game only means consensus-building for certain
groups/genres/media etc.

aw, ain't language grand?

On 2/3/07, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> Michael T. Richter wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
> >> Language changes are almost always the result of consistent misuse by
> >> the illiterate.
> >
> > Incorrect statements about language are almost invariably the result of
> > people who haven't even bothered reading the most elementary texts of
> > linguistics.
> >
> Just what is the judgment of one who has read the most elementary texts
> of linguistics?  And what would someone who has read advanced texts of
> linguistics think of that judgment?
>
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Matthew Clarke