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   From: eric_t_duckman@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:54:31 +1200, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > In article <8d2g6bywkmat$.q1oq91x7g0b2.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   > b.scott@csuohio.edu wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:21:06 +1200, Your Name    
   >> wrote in   
   >>    
   >> in rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
   >> > In article , "Default User"   
   >> >  wrote:   
   >> >> Your Name wrote:   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> No change there - Americans are always making up meanings and   
   >> >>> spellings to ENGLISH to suit themselves.   
   >> >>> :-\   
   >> >>   
   >> >> As have the English for many centuries. I recall reading that some   
   >> >> of the complaints made by those in England regarding misuses or   
   >> >> neologisms in the colonies turned out to be usages that were once   
   >> >> standard but had changed in England, to the point where the English   
   >> >> forgot about them.   
   >> >   
   >> > Yes, but the English invented the language (okay, they stole it from   
   >> > various other languages),   
   >>   
   >> Neither statement is correct.  For that matter, the notion that there   
   >> is only one English is incorrect.   
   >   
   > Both parts are correct. "English" is made up from various other   
   > languages,   
   > some based in what is now Great Britain and some from other countries   
   > further afield, including German, French, Latin, etc.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> > so they morally have the right to be able to change it if they want   
   >> > to.   
   >>   
   >> It isn't a matter of rights or morality.  It's simply how languages   
   >> work: they change.   
   >   
   > Languages don't change - people change them, mostly people too lazy or   
   > too stupid to use it the correct way.   
   >   
   > The French actually have a committee that officially accepts or rejects   
   > changes to the French language. Of course that doesn't stop the people   
   > out on the street making up all sorts of words and phrases themselves,   
   > but it does stop them becoming an official part of the dictionary.   
      
   Holy FSM, yet ANOTHER reason to hate the French! :)   
      
   Seriously, that sort of language "purity" nonsense is one of the reasons I   
   hope the USA never adopts an official language. The others being that I   
   think the right to free speech implies the right to speak in whatever   
   gibberish you feel most comfortable babbling in, and that this is one area   
   we should definitely let the market make the decision.   
      
   I mean, come on, do you REALLY want the chuckle-heads in DC to have power   
   over the language you use? It's bad enough that we've got the FCC   
   regulating what goes over the air waves, and don't get me started about   
   the FDA and the FTC! Sheesh, you can't even advertise bogus herbal boner   
   pills without ahighspeedunintelligibledisclaimerattheend!   
      
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