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05-09-2011, 06:40 PM
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Bollocks. Language evolves. It's purpose is to be used to communicate, and restraining people's use of it is contrary to that purpose. It has to adapt to express new ideas, and any attempt to stop this requires that you pick an arbitrary stage in its evolution for it to be fixed at. Why not declare formal sixteenth century English the true form, or whatever it will be by 2100. What's so special about the English of our grandparent's generation?
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