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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3863854" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Of course there are also people who, having taken English classes and Latin, and so forth, come away convinced that the English language is fixed, immutable, is and always will be subject to authoritative dictates. Which, of course, is total crap. Language changes. How people use a language changes. New words, new ways of using old words, changes in grammatical structures, assimilation of foreign words and devices, etc. As I have always been given to understand, English is a particularly mutable language that incorporates words from everywhere at the drop of a hat.</p><p></p><p>It certainly isn't a language that got a big, red stamp on it a few hundred years ago that said "FINAL DRAFT - NO CHANGES IN USAGE SHALL BE TOLERATED EVER AGAIN." For example, I once upon a time believed my teachers and professors when they said "ain't" is not a word. BULL. Maybe it isn't a word that fits traditional, strictly FORMAL uses of English, but I've come to consider such assertions as "ain't just isn't acceptible" as pretentious crap spouted by teachers trying to justify their salary.</p><p></p><p>Now, as far as boni is concerned (or as I've seen and used it: "bonii") I have no fear in saying that it was coined purely in jest and not in an erroneous attempt at genuinely accurate plural form. And it was probably Hong. It was probably done to poke fun at people who couldn't make the correct plural form in the first place ("Is it bonuses, bonus's, bonus' or what?"). It doesn't matter that it isn't in a dictionary right now. In ten years that could have actually changed. Even if it WERE a failed attempt at genuinely accurate plural form it doesn't matter - words can and do become accepted as a result of corrupting forms of other words, or even when they are completely fabricated from whole cloth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 3863854, member: 32740"] Of course there are also people who, having taken English classes and Latin, and so forth, come away convinced that the English language is fixed, immutable, is and always will be subject to authoritative dictates. Which, of course, is total crap. Language changes. How people use a language changes. New words, new ways of using old words, changes in grammatical structures, assimilation of foreign words and devices, etc. As I have always been given to understand, English is a particularly mutable language that incorporates words from everywhere at the drop of a hat. It certainly isn't a language that got a big, red stamp on it a few hundred years ago that said "FINAL DRAFT - NO CHANGES IN USAGE SHALL BE TOLERATED EVER AGAIN." For example, I once upon a time believed my teachers and professors when they said "ain't" is not a word. BULL. Maybe it isn't a word that fits traditional, strictly FORMAL uses of English, but I've come to consider such assertions as "ain't just isn't acceptible" as pretentious crap spouted by teachers trying to justify their salary. Now, as far as boni is concerned (or as I've seen and used it: "bonii") I have no fear in saying that it was coined purely in jest and not in an erroneous attempt at genuinely accurate plural form. And it was probably Hong. It was probably done to poke fun at people who couldn't make the correct plural form in the first place ("Is it bonuses, bonus's, bonus' or what?"). It doesn't matter that it isn't in a dictionary right now. In ten years that could have actually changed. Even if it WERE a failed attempt at genuinely accurate plural form it doesn't matter - words can and do become accepted as a result of corrupting forms of other words, or even when they are completely fabricated from whole cloth. [/QUOTE]
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