Oxford Word of the Year 2009: "Unfriend"

[MC Moot]

The english language is dying a slow but steady death...

[camo]

What happens when it 'dies' then Einstein?

[Guy Incognito]

things change moots, deal with it

[MC Moot]

I saved Latin...What did you ever do?

:mad:

[hpdrifter]

Actually, having studied a few different languages I would say I agree with Moot. English is already one of the least grammatically conservative and seems to be losing ground much faster than other languages. What was it they called that streamlined speak in the book 1984 when words like better and best had been phased out and there was only good and plus good or something like that?

That's kind of what this sounds like to me on a basic level (I am not implying that this event foretells the coming of a 1984-like utopian society).

[MC Moot]

Actually, having studied a few different languages I would say I agree with Moot. English is already one of the least grammatically conservative and seems to be losing ground much faster than other languages. What was it they called that streamlined speak in the book 1984 when words like better and best had been phased out and there was only good and plus good or something like that?

That's kind of what this sounds like to me on a basic level (I am not implying that this event foretells the coming of a 1984-like utopian society).

excellent...we'll begin a social club where we get together,drink tea,eat cucumber sandwhiches without the crust and speak good and proper like to one another...(y)

[insertnamehere]

my everyday speech is pretty strange. i use a lot of words and grammatical structures that sound very proper at times, and then at random will break down into ebonics. i don't really use either of these in an ironic way, thats just how stuff comes out of my mouth. i dont really know how to explain it, but yeah, i use words in ways that one wouldn't normally.

[MC Moot]

my everyday speech is pretty strange. i use a lot of words and grammatical structures that sound very proper at times, and then at random will break down into ebonics...

You DID not say ebonics...tell me you didn't say ebonics...fuck fuckity fuck'n ebonics...take it back...(n)

[Nuzzolese]

Hark! Verily you would be fain to prevent the language from straying hither and thither from the traditional, but forsooth methinks perchance there must have been whilom styles of speech before even these very words were nigh to have come into fashion.

[MC Moot]

^touché...a colleague was dismissing my distaste by means of Shakesperian comparrison only yesterday...

[Nuzzolese]

Now, dost thou not feel silly?

[hpdrifter]

I don't understand the hostility for the aforementioned reason.

[MC Moot]

Now, dost thou not feel silly?

nay,now is the winter of my discontent...

[insertnamehere]

oh... i totally didnt say that...


a few days ago i said something that was like, "why niggas always gotta be datin crazy bitches?" i had to stop and be like.... really, self?

[MC Moot]

^Were you on a yacht,swiging Hennesy and Cristal while lighting Cuban cigars with hundred dollar bills?...cause if you were I’d throw you overboard and your bling would take you to the bottom…

[insertnamehere]

there was a helicopter hovering in the background. they could have saved me.

[MC Moot]

yes...of course...what am I thinking?...theres alway's a helicopter,isn't there?


;)

[HEIRESS]

I <3 colloquialisms! ....yo.

[MC Moot]

There is a finite line between colloquialisms and slang...