What's your deal, English? We're out here just trying to get a handle on the language, but you're evolving, changing, metamorphosing constantly, however you please. Other languages give us accents to guide us along the way, but you just throw words out there and expect us to know how to pronounce them. Are you better than other languages? Are you too cool for an accent here and there?
It's okay though English, because I love you. Your intricacies, the way that most of us don't really know how to use you 100% correctly, and your ever-changing personality make me appreciate you that much more. You're cool, English. We can hang out.
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I was just discussing these characteristics of our language with a certain someone. We, as classically educated folk, should just face it. Trying to keep the language "pure" is as impossible a task as my parents trying to keep me from walking around the house naked. Times change. What was once correct is now archaic. I like to think of it as natural selection. Evolution or extinction. If now a word is unused or used differently, then it probably wasn't damn good enough. You know what, from now on, I'm using whatever words I want in formal writing. It's simple expression. Walk with me...
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