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The degeneration of English (pg. 4)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
One so we do not split into 3000 languages |
That's unlikely to happen to the modern literary languages, such as English: Not only there's mass media now, speakers want listeners to understand them, so they will always speak in a way that they know they will be understood (in fact, that's why I'm speaking English right now, and not Portuguese). |
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| weymouth |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
wtf is "wata"? |
+1 Water? I dont get it. |
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| paulandrews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
wtf is "wata"? |
'What the' maybe?
What the --> Wata :p |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
That's unlikely to happen to the modern literary languages, such as English: Not only there's mass media now, speakers want listeners to understand them, so they will always speak in a way that they know they will be understood (in fact, that's why I'm speaking English right now, and not Portuguese). |
i don't understand :conf:
hehe, i guess I could have said 3000 dialects? but we can still understand most dialects. and you do have a nice point, global media keeps us speaking the same language, whatever it may be. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
hehe, i guess I could have said 3000 dialects? but we can still understand most dialects. and you do have a nice point, global media keeps us speaking the same language, whatever it may be. |
The practical difference between a language and a dialect is that you're supposed to understand a different dialect of your language, whereas you probably wouldn't understand someone speaking another language.
The political difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has got an army :D |
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| venomX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
The practical difference between a language and a dialect is that you're supposed to understand a different dialect of your language, whereas you probably wouldn't understand someone speaking another language.
The political difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has got an army :D |
lol nice comparison. im writing down this analogy :p |
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| Lira |
Interesting.
Although didn't the number of students also increase during that period of time? I wonder whether the majority of them are in good institutions and/or whether they really want to learn.
Also, I hear that people don't like to read things on screen. I personally have no trouble with that, but I spend a lot of time reading e-books, so... |
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| Protege |
| Kids today are retarded. I wish that everyday i could steal a schoolbus, pick up all the kids and drive them off a cliff. |
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| L.E.N. |
| "Ain't" IS a word. |
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| Lilith |
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It’s time to acknowledge that in a truly multimedia environment of 2025, most Americans don’t need to understand more than a hundred or so words at a time, and certainly will never read anything approaching the length of an old-fashioned book. We need a frank reassessment of where long-form literacy itself lies in the spectrum of skills that a modern nation requires of its workers. |
A worry really, especially the lack of reading as it is a slow slide into ignorance which will beset us with a whole heap of other problems when it comes to interacting with other people. Just looking at work at the moment I see bits and pieces of SMS speak turning up in reports and other sundry things which it never would have 10 years ago. Real worry is someone laziness abbreviating things with numbers, which in an economic report stands to be confused with a statistic... think come Monday I'm going to complain about it.
That and I don't really want to pick through someone's half-assed attempt to turn official english into some sort of Cant. |
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