RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
March 16, 2013 at 2:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2013 at 2:59 am by Angrboda.)
I don't know. I think global arts, electronic communication, and the internet have done far more to change language than any of the above.
But to me, language is organic. Things don't evolve to a higher life form, or devolve into a lower one; they just change.
The same with language. One hundred years from now, we may have only one word to express they're, there, and their — it will all be the same word. So what?