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Article #41854Re: * Criticizing one's English skills...
From: Carole Smythe
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00
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Mangling the language until it is unreadable is somewhat different than an evolvoing language. Most people recognize typos and mistakes in posts. However, there is one gentleman who posts regularly to political sites and used to post to a now defunct web site, who's lack of grammar and punctuation skills makes it very difficult to understand his messages. No one cares about a few typos and a bit of bad grammer; but how can you take someone seriously when they make no effort to check their work. In fact, I have reason to believe that the poster in question deliberately mangles his posts in order to be different. In article <910076015.905534@wagasa.cts.com>, nexus@king.cts.com says... > > >Masataka wrote: > >>>My point was following: The changing of a "language" does not occur >>>very often for English language. English language of 100 years ago >>>is like today's English. > > >Actually, English breathes deeply. It changes constantly. > >Many of the mistakes people point out are not actually mistakes, as there are >many different varieties of English. Go into any large North American city >and you'll find different types of English spoken in different areas. Add to >that class, ethnicity, age-groups, nation (and a slew of other factors) and >you end-up with a vibrant, constantly changing language: English > >Even formal English evolves - what was colloquial 20 years ago is now accepted >in some cases. > >Fashion: foreign borrowings and expressions that made absolutely no sense just >two or three years ago come into the mainstream and either stay a while or die >in a couple of years. There's more to this, but you get the gist. Nex > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, > perhaps then in spring time our hearts would be at peace." > Ariwara no Narihira > ------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 102c8f,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102c8f,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: fc51e,86088d7d3f4c10f9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc51e,public From: sleepy91@hotmail.com (Carole Smythe) Subject: Re: * Criticizing one's English skills... Date: 1998/11/03 Message-ID: <363f10fb.0@diana.idirect.com> X-Deja-AN: 407929246 References: <363507eb.1463820@news.sprint.ca> <F1ow1o.Cvt@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <363b0e08.5901171@news.sprint.ca> <F1qz13.Guz@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <363D4880.20FB4A7F@direct.ca> <363da5d2.2024642@news.sprint.ca> <910076015.905534@wagasa.cts.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: earth net MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: can.general,qc.general,concordia.general,mcgill.general,van.general,tor.general,ont.general