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Originally posted by RapidFire fuk u lolz

lolz u pwnt him ++good lolol

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Originally posted by neo geo ...its discrimination ...If they are from india they are allowed to .....WHY?

omg, not u again

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Originally posted by Sunsnail ++good

Double-plus good?

I agree with Lira on this one, language changes, even if we don't want it to. I get annoyed at the fact that back in my home country spanish is getting 'anglicized'. A lot of people also think that our variation on the spoken part of spanish is horrid, and it might be true, but it is incredibly efficient and allows for communication to happen faster. I do have a bit of mix feelings on this one, but in theory it is good for language to change. At the same time a feel a bit of nostalgia and sadness because i consider most of the changes to be negative aesthetically.

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Orbax At that point you kind of crossed the rubicon and you might as well lay siege to Rome

wtf is "wata"?

People who type like that in something that's obviously supposed to be a professional document are fucking stupid. I've never seen it happen b4 and i hope i nvr will.

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Originally posted by Frenchie Awww no no! No spanking!! lol WHEN PEOPLE TYPE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I AM GETTING YELLED AT. -awaiting Idoru to steal my CAPS button.

*yoink*

ugh
i'm taking an intro to linguistics class this term
in the first week i've been to so far they've been hammering home the difference between a prescriptive linguist and a descriptive linguist, and have prescriptivism is bad and descriptivism is good

basically:
prescriptivism - people who claim there is a set standard for grammar and whatnot and think people who do it any other ways besides their own are wrong
descriptivism - seems to only study the use, not correct it where it doesn't agree wiht you


but so he's trying to tell us shit like 'me and mary went to the movies' can indeed be judged as grmamatically correct. and its fucking not!
and like some regional things i can bite on, but some are just fucking silly
like some southern dialects have double modals: "i might could do something"
sounds fucking uneducated and generally retarded
ugh i wanna to go off in class today, such bullshi

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Harry Potter helped get a ton of the newer generations interested in literature .... has it effected their spelling I don't know


but I say make Harry Potter mandatory reading for everyone before they graduate high school

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Originally posted by mezzir but so he's trying to tell us shit like 'me and mary went to the movies' can indeed be judged as grmamatically correct. and its fucking not! and like some regional things i can bite on, but some are just fucking silly like some southern dialects have double modals: "i might could do something" sounds fucking uneducated and generally retarded ugh i wanna to go off in class today, such bullshi

Oi, that's a serious problem in linguistics nowadays.

Grammarians, full of prejudices and biases, created a sense of "the Good Language" based on Latin and Greek, and people incredibly bought it. It's about time we dropped this prescriptivist intolerance and valued our modern spoken language.

We fight for linguistic freedom!!!!

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Originally posted by jdat but I say make Harry Potter mandatory reading for everyone before they graduate high school

The hell with Harry Potter, make 1984 a mandatory read in high school so people can see what the dangers are of newspeak.

Which is all that all this "IM chat" is, it is newspeak with a different name.



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Thats kind of funny cause I actually used some on my exam. here is a question..


Calculate the Sum of Squares (Show work too plz)



hehe. I am alright with people using it on exams, after all this is not an english class i am teaching (thank god!!). BUT!!! if I was asking for a research proposal, an experimental write up, or some other 'official' type of writing I would not accept it at all. I think homework assignments and exams are pretty informal so they can use whatever dialect they are most comfortable with.


as far as prescriptivism / descriptivism....we need both. One so we do not split into 3000 languages (which is kinda what india has done afaik) and the other to evolve. How much of each we embrace is just personal opinion