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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen
Agreed. Mark just sounded pretty black-or-white about it, and I wanted to point out the evolution of language didn't stop a few hundred years ago. Great example of this: urbandictionary.com. Although most of those words and phrases will never be "validated" and used universally, it shows the expansive influence that society has on language. We don't have the right to assume that our generation's contributions to language won't be critical in the future. The creation of valid words (those tried and tested over time) isn't limited to our great writers. I think that's the interesting thing about modern linguistics-- our entire society contributes to the major changes in language, like with the newest OED additions. Pretty cool.
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true. the internet is the "great equalizer" when it comes to vocabularical innoventions.
on the flip side, as a crusty old prescriptivist, i feel the need to be more vigilant in these trying times of word anarchy.
