Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

Lars wrote: "When people use grand language to dupe the masses (or the
boss), it's a misuse --- unlike if they do it for fun or for art's sake."

It's misuse that really makes me cranky, although grand language makes me a
little crabby, too.

"And where the spurious made-up forms come in, is as direct evidence that
this is a conscious attempt from the speaker to sound impressive ---
because there is no other reason to make that sort of mistake in that
context. Whereas people who actually do master the register, may just be
using it because it seems to be expected, and not because they think they
stand to gain anything from it."

Yes. Thank you for carefully reading my post. I appreciate the effort. I am
annoyed that misuse by the Bad People (bucking-for-power-primates) may
cause the word to be accepted by the learned. This is a little
prescriptively-motivated, but it's all driven by motive rather than simple
neologism.

"Borrowing from any other language than English is just fine with me as
well, and I'll do it on occasion. But Danish is clearly the underdog to
English in the current situation, so it needs a little support."

Yep. Whereas since English is so ubiquitous, it could use a little
subversion. Hence my wordplay and borrowing. A real coup is to get a
conlang word used in daily speech by people who don't know about conlangs -
or who are of the look-down-your-nose-at-that-foolish-habit type ...

BB

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