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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
I'm terribly torn about the way language is changing. Part of me is screaming "No! No! Its not MEANT to be like that! It should be like THIS.....!"
And the other part of me is saying "Yippee! Go, man, go! Innovation forever!"
Maybe its just my Piscean nature showing... Or my age!
Well new words have been being made up for millenia, all languages are dynamic, I don't think it's any different now, relatively anyway. And some words that were once considered colloquial are common usage now. I was going to write I like the way people are 'verbifying' nouns, but I didn't want to shock anyone lol