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Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 23:53
In a message dated 2003:09:24 12:16:27 PM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:

>I think Standard English lags about a century behind spoken English, roughly.
A whole century 0_o? I have seen 50-75 years in most writings/opinions on this subject (IIRC i.e. John McWhorter's _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_, David Crystal, etc.). --- *digibunga!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, MangaLanger http://www.boheme-magazine.net "The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension." - Ezra Pound Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ! gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ! riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!)