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[CajunCenturion]

Dictionaries change: This is literally the end of the English language

Given that the cited definition is self-referential, what does that really do to the definition?


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[flapeyre]

Coincidentally:

This Might be the End of the English Language

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[mscallisto]

You know your in trouble when society has to change it self so the people who cant use words correctly don't feel "left out".

Sadly I agree; have a star for pointing that out.

Sam

 

[hjgoldstein]

You know your in trouble when society has to change it self so the people who cant use words correctly don't feel "left out".

Bearing in mind JohnHerman's signature block in this very forum:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

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[mscallisto]

Is this the same G.B. Shaw?
Shaw admired not just Stalin, but Mussolini and even Hitler.[24] He despised freedom, writing, "Mussolini... Hitler and the rest can all depend on me to judge them by their ability to deliver the goods and not by... comfortable notions of freedom."[25]

 

[Westi]

You might be happy to hear (or not) that the English language is not the only one deteriorating due to the 'no dummy left behind" policies of our times.
German (I know that one for sure) has scrapped the sharp S (ß) like in Straße (now Strasse) because it was only used for some but not all words and people (some) could not remember which ones.
The solution was again to take the dumbest person and see how they can accommodate them and they made the ß disappear and replaced it wit ss.
This seems to be a phenomenon in the western world to make all bend by some minorities request or needs, not only in the language though.
So much for democracy ("rule of the people") where the majority dictates the happenings. Depressing at times.

Joe W.

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[Olaf Doschke]

Westi,

good point, but the ß is not totally gone from German. What puzzles me most is, it is removed in the perhaps most famous word containing ß, the daß. Now it's dass.

But the ß ligature is still in use, see here:

http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa092898.htm

And Straße is a bad example, as it's still written with ß.

The overall phenomenon is true nevertheless. Germany had an orthography reform in 1996, which went into force in 1998 and a final revision is in force since 2006. See

http://german.about.com/library/blreform.htm

And the overall reasoning was to not leave 'dummmies' behind, true. Some even say Germany wanted to get a better rank in the Pisa evaluation of international school systems.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Westi]

I have not been in Germany since 2000 and had to rely on my parents information, which was apparently incomplete.

for some reason I think the old way was easier but that is probably because I grew up with it. I feel for the teachers that have to adapt to this and teach it properly to the new students and correct the students that had studied it 'wrong" for the last years.

I think I stay with English in written form and just speak the German as you can't hear the difference

Joe W.

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[2ffat]

Wish you could literally do this?


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[budbyrd]

BTW.... everything has been shortened by texting... dbl + good new speak CU L8r~~!!~~ Just trying out the new speak taught by our Gov't "Department of Education".... and remembering what a good year 1984 was...

Think twice, speak once~~!!~~

 

[tcsbiz]

BTW.... everything has been shortened by texting... dbl + good new speak CU L8r~~!!~~

H8 that, dont u?

 

[BobRodes]

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