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I guess it depends on how long one's life is. Tom Send a noteboard - 23/01/2018 11:39:40 PM

I'm trying to think of some examples. At present, I can think of two: the phrase "buck naked" was misheard and misrepeated as "butt naked", which has become a new standard. Although it is technically incorrect, it has become so universal that it is becoming a new standard. Similarly, the phrase "hate on" is currently a popular grammatically incorrect usage. If it survives long enough, it might end up becoming normative.

Interestingly enough, incorrect usages can become normative and still continue to be incorrect. The best example of that is "ain't", which persists in the language and persists as an example of incorrect usage at the same time.

On spelling, changes are rarer. One notable example would be the accepted use of "lite" instead of "light".

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

*MySmiley*
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The Fascinating History of 10 Extra Letters the English Alphabet Used to Have - 18/01/2018 06:35:45 PM 1345 Views
I have to take issue with the & and the "long s" - 18/01/2018 07:28:09 PM 660 Views
Ok, let's define what a letter is. - 18/01/2018 11:25:22 PM 720 Views
Yes, the long "s" is just a variant. It didn't have a name in Old English. - 19/01/2018 03:39:51 PM 843 Views
I don't think not having a name in Old English matters here. - 19/01/2018 05:05:47 PM 966 Views
I think it does, quite definitively. - 20/01/2018 08:46:24 PM 710 Views
All th Germans I have known have considered ß to be a letter. - 20/01/2018 11:01:40 PM 795 Views
ß is a ligature - 21/01/2018 04:04:48 PM 669 Views
That article is even sloppier than the first - 20/01/2018 09:01:33 PM 662 Views
All letters were once "fake". - 20/01/2018 10:59:11 PM 765 Views
Isn't that kind of idealist - 21/01/2018 08:02:14 AM 691 Views
Realist perhaps - 22/01/2018 01:54:14 AM 658 Views
Pivots - 22/01/2018 03:43:56 AM 777 Views
Meanwhile - 22/01/2018 12:23:13 PM 637 Views
Olympics are grand aren't they? *NM* - 22/01/2018 05:23:56 PM 363 Views
Deutschland, Deutschland! - 22/01/2018 05:26:50 PM 555 Views
No, actually that's quite incorrect. - 21/01/2018 04:14:18 PM 710 Views
You've missed the point. - 22/01/2018 01:53:59 AM 714 Views
No, I'm trying to show the qualitative difference between the two events. - 22/01/2018 04:34:20 PM 596 Views
The letter J? *NM* - 22/01/2018 05:19:14 PM 416 Views
No, J is a lot like the long s. - 22/01/2018 07:23:01 PM 643 Views
Feels we are talking past each other. - 22/01/2018 07:52:53 PM 743 Views
You're wrong. - 23/01/2018 01:21:26 AM 764 Views
Agreed. Ligatures aren't letters. *NM* - 19/01/2018 06:13:43 AM 396 Views
Eh . . . the Ampersand is probably now considered a logogram rather than a ligature. - 19/01/2018 01:27:21 PM 645 Views
ſ is just a variant. *NM* - 19/01/2018 03:40:53 PM 443 Views
I enjoy this thread muchly...yet I will not participate besides saying - 19/01/2018 10:46:40 PM 659 Views
You're using sublime too often; it's losing its luster - 20/01/2018 12:15:10 AM 698 Views
Do I? (in regards to sublime) - 20/01/2018 12:46:35 AM 652 Views
(in regards to sublime) - 20/01/2018 03:18:04 PM 678 Views
Brilliant! *NM* - 20/01/2018 03:38:39 PM 381 Views
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*NM* - 23/01/2018 09:18:01 PM 377 Views
Is this payback for the irritating word, Umami? - 24/01/2018 07:25:56 AM 564 Views
Upapi? *NM* - 25/01/2018 08:41:14 PM 417 Views
Thank all gods everywhere they are gone. - 22/01/2018 12:23:34 PM 651 Views
Some other letters should go too. - 22/01/2018 01:12:31 PM 713 Views
How would you replace the ch sound? - 22/01/2018 04:15:04 PM 680 Views
I thought of removing C, as well. - 22/01/2018 06:16:20 PM 654 Views
The CH is a problem. - 22/01/2018 06:34:47 PM 577 Views
And calling people you don't like "fu king unts"? *NM* - 22/01/2018 07:25:29 PM 487 Views
Meanwhile if it were written as fuking kunts, no one would have any issues - 22/01/2018 07:54:41 PM 721 Views
I have an issue, kunts looks too much like nuts or knuts - 22/01/2018 08:09:52 PM 653 Views
Would you prefer a Knut? - 22/01/2018 10:55:09 PM 618 Views
Yes I like my internet memes and thus I do not want to be confused by that word sometimes directed - 23/01/2018 10:28:58 PM 600 Views
Yes, ask him - 24/01/2018 01:32:08 AM 625 Views
Totes I will ask him about Tot *NM* - 24/01/2018 09:49:45 PM 406 Views
Yes, about the meanings. Pronounced quite differently. - 25/01/2018 06:17:22 PM 745 Views
Scheisse. I did forget it. - 26/01/2018 05:24:21 PM 621 Views
You mean Scheiße? *NM* - 26/01/2018 06:49:26 PM 401 Views
No. I mean Scheisse. *NM* - 26/01/2018 07:15:21 PM 416 Views
*NM* - 26/01/2018 11:07:18 PM 467 Views
*NM* - 28/01/2018 02:15:03 AM 389 Views
all those k's.... - 22/01/2018 08:23:09 PM 592 Views
So . . . no Klondike bars or Kit Kats for you. - 22/01/2018 10:55:53 PM 710 Views
But it would look "fuking" stupid - 23/01/2018 01:30:15 AM 651 Views
All languages change - 23/01/2018 01:40:18 AM 630 Views
They change, but resistance is not futile. - 23/01/2018 02:10:17 AM 683 Views
Also, you're not talking about the language changing. You're talking about changing the language. - 23/01/2018 02:16:39 AM 699 Views
I am being a realist who understands that spellings change. Letters get dropped. Language evolves. - 23/01/2018 06:53:25 PM 756 Views
It is posts like this that remind me why you are my RAFO tree - 23/01/2018 10:29:53 PM 596 Views
Nope sadly he did not *NM* - 23/01/2018 10:30:09 PM 329 Views
What are you talking about here? - 24/01/2018 12:21:55 PM 639 Views
I am talking about Logograms - 24/01/2018 09:48:48 PM 651 Views
Evolution, not revolution - 23/01/2018 10:54:37 PM 745 Views
Should change occur in one's lifetime or only seen through a generational prism? *NM* - 23/01/2018 11:07:47 PM 383 Views
I guess it depends on how long one's life is. - 23/01/2018 11:39:40 PM 628 Views

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