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Originally Posted by ving
g'day Matt!.... oops i mean hello.
you try and tell that to the poeple of the 1800s. I am pretty sure that they wouldnt understand half of what is said today....
which english is more correct?
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David... would that I could. However, given time machines have yet to be invented, I'll let that go straight through to the keeper.
The difference here, I believe, is that people are advocating we allow people who ostensibly speak the same language in the same era (ie 2007, 21C) to spell words however they like. So, we will see all manner of spelling and interpretation across people of the same cultural group and era.
Let's not bother bringing the 1800s into this debate. Although I understand the point you are making
Language is an organic creature, and yes, it changes over time.
At this moment in time... we have this thing called a dictionary and a language which, whether we like it or not, involves a large degree of agreement in terms of structure and definition at any given moment in time.
This new push is to do away with that formalised, agreed way of spelling words and constructing sentences etc etc