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Post #420,656
by static
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10/6/17 2:41:41 AM
10/6/17 2:41:41 AM
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New Languages are always changing.
Trying to stop it is like trying to stop the sun rising or the tide changing.

Wade.
Post #420,711
by CRConrad
10/9/17 6:47:42 AM
10/9/17 6:47:42 AM
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New Yup, sure. But thanks to those of us trying to dam the rising tide...
...you have at least a chance to understand Shakespeare in the original. Without this rearguard fight to slow the change, he would be as intelligible as Beowulf.
--
Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi
(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
     found someone stealing air - (boxley) - (16) - Oct. 3, 2017, 07:10:52 PM EDT
         Wish I believed in hell -NT - (drook) - (13) - Oct. 3, 2017, 08:02:37 PM EDT
             Or: "How can I believe in God . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (12) - Oct. 3, 2017, 11:05:15 PM EDT
                 perhaps some codger who is targeted whips out a trusty .44 and defends a home invasion, could happen -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 3, 2017, 11:36:49 PM EDT
                 Shouldn't that be "smitten"? - (CRConrad) - (10) - Oct. 5, 2017, 03:59:30 AM EDT
                     IIRC smite, smote, smitten ... but it's been a while. -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2017, 04:12:21 AM EDT
                     Interesting. - (static) - Oct. 5, 2017, 07:23:02 AM EDT
                     I used it that way deliberately for the exact reason . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Oct. 5, 2017, 10:37:22 AM EDT
                         Amen, brother.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2017, 02:40:11 PM EDT
                         You're contributing to the spreading of dumbth. - (CRConrad) - (5) - Oct. 6, 2017, 01:33:20 AM EDT
                             Languages are always changing. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 6, 2017, 02:41:41 AM EDT
                                 Yup, sure. But thanks to those of us trying to dam the rising tide... - (CRConrad) - Oct. 9, 2017, 06:47:42 AM EDT
                             In current usage over here . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2017, 03:52:33 AM EDT
                                 Re: "the word "stricken" is most used in contexts of love, art and architecture" - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 6, 2017, 02:54:34 PM EDT
                                 Except you seem to have switched sides since then. - (CRConrad) - Oct. 9, 2017, 07:02:54 AM EDT
         I suspect that CA Oversight has got to beat THIS.. by a few orders of magnitude - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 4, 2017, 02:58:53 PM EDT
             you might want to check it out just in case -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 5, 2017, 08:47:33 PM EDT

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