Illegal immigrants

Language is a living thing which evolves and English, being a global language,
is evolving quickly. How many words do you now use which either didn't exist or had a different meaning when you were at school? Punctuation and other conventions have changed their format too. The important thing is that we are able to communicate our meanings effectively.

 

Far from it. I have every sympathy for them.

Surely anecdotal evidence is when A tells B, who then tells C, who then tells me? Is my day to day experience not solid? If you want to rely on data then we can both take the same figures and use them to prove our two separate opinions.
Here's one we hear every day. We stand in the queue at the till and when it's our turn they say "can I help you?"!!!!!!
Or "it was like literally so funny". What!!

 

Its perfectly solid within the small subset of the bigger picture that you personally see. What you, or I, or any other one individual sees is not necessarily representative of the whole.

 

Well, maybe my view is tainted by my experience of my daughters education. But if better is achieved elsewhere then surely we should aim for that too?

 

Totally agree.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

 

We've stopped saying Cool and Groovy. I used to use those like literally every sentence. So I expect that they will too ... plus the language & OED adapts and moves on too

Me too. But I can't ...

 

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that I may be a joyless booger!!

 

We become our parents?

 

I remember when as a young 'un and I was breaking various bones my old man used to say that "if you don't take more care this will all bite you on the ass when you're older". I would think to myself "what does the silly old fart know?". Now that I'm older it turns out he was right!

 

you rarely make mistakes and anyway, we understand - altogether a different thing Kristen
Jenny

 

Only by the application of crafty use of technology