Languages do not improve or deteriorate. They just change, like the tides. Yesterday's tide is no better or worse than today's or tomorrow's.... Words come and go. Grammar fluctuates. Pronunciations alter. Spelling preferences vary. None of it adds up to a doomsday scenario, notwithstanding the best efforts of media pundits to say that it does.
~ David Crystal, Words Words Words (2006)
Saturday, July 14, 2012
"Languages do not improve or deteriorate..."
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