A Blog Entry About English
Here's a blog entry from K.a.f.k.a.e.d.: Engrishee ees not clazy! A quote:
"English isn't Latin. Latin has precise grammatical rules so that if a verb takes on one sound, other verbs will take on similar sounds. In Latin, if you will, grocers will groce and fingers will fing. But there is a price to pay for such unchanging precision in a language.
Why is Latin so unchanging and precise? Because it's dead.
If it is used at all it is used by scientists and specialists who need a non-"crazy language" whose grammar, spellings, and usage do not change. That's how you know that scientists in Japan, China and the former Soviet states are referring to the same animal when they say Canis Familiaris.
Living languages, like English, must by their very nature change, adapt and grow. They will, upon contact with another language or culture, borrow words and change their meanings and spellings."
"English isn't Latin. Latin has precise grammatical rules so that if a verb takes on one sound, other verbs will take on similar sounds. In Latin, if you will, grocers will groce and fingers will fing. But there is a price to pay for such unchanging precision in a language.
Why is Latin so unchanging and precise? Because it's dead.
If it is used at all it is used by scientists and specialists who need a non-"crazy language" whose grammar, spellings, and usage do not change. That's how you know that scientists in Japan, China and the former Soviet states are referring to the same animal when they say Canis Familiaris.
Living languages, like English, must by their very nature change, adapt and grow. They will, upon contact with another language or culture, borrow words and change their meanings and spellings."
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