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Originally Posted by BakerStreet
It really pings me to see people misuse the English language by restricting it with spelling and gramma. This was inflicted on us a little over 100 years ago by printers and editors. Before the mass media the language was still living and flexible.
The undisputed king of the English language is William Shakespeare. Despite the thousands of new words he introduced to the language and the new ways of using them and constructing sentences. Most of which are now considered bad grammar. There are 96 references to his name written by contemporaries and 12 signatures by his own hand and none are spelled the same and none are spelled the way we spell his name today.
I quick look through any old books or documents will show the flexibility that the English language used to have. The modern view that everything has to conform to the rules that we have been given has reduced the English language to a dead language like Latin and has lost the fluidity and fun that it once had.
By the way, the original definition of Dictionary was the history of words and their use.
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I vixed my words so does thou tear out my lips so I may not speak. No he does open the window and spring forth bringing mery thoughts. or something like that. hehehe