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Message: <blockquote data-quote="breschau" data-source="post: 4190572" data-attributes="member: 52376">If your viewpoint is entirely centered around your own lifetime, then sure, resistance is great. These are the rules of spelling, these are the rules of grammar, stick to 'em. Or else.But, in the long view, the morphing of how the language is spoken versus how it is written is exactly how languages branch, new languages originate, etc. Further, when a language is forced to remain the same, i.e. not allowed to change, that's how they die. Languages are organic, they evolve over centuries. Just in my lifetime the number of words created and entering the dictionaries is staggering, plus the new definitions for existing words. If we offer pure resistance and don't allow anything in, we wouldn't have any of the following: email, cell phone, snail mail, anime, audiophile, carjacking, cross-trainer, date rape, earwitness, computer, Ebonics, emoticon, flame (in the internet forum sense), 411 (information), garden burger, ginormous, japanimation, jones (desire), Jordanesque (a la Michael Jordan), mallrats, McJob, metro-sexual, netizen, pooper-scooper, postal (as in going postal), potus, road rage, spam (annoying email), spork, swoosh (the nike logo), tagging (spray-paint graffiti), televangelist, terraform, grok, troll (internet meaning), zine, and that's just a quick google away. (Oh, yeah, there's that word too.)Careful when you offer up resistance. You might be the target of a book like Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies.If you've had any schooling at all, you'll spot the difference between what is acceptable to say (slang, etc) and what is acceptable to write in a paper. Speech versus Academic writing. Different vocab entirely. Take it a few steps further and think of the King James Bible. Thee's and thou's.</blockquote>

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