RE: How do you like your eggs?
March 26, 2014 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 6:21 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 24, 2014 at 9:25 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:(March 24, 2014 at 9:22 pm)whateverist Wrote: It is now. English is very, very fluid.God, I know exactly what you mean and it is just an awful feature of human language.
Not all human languages, but it is a feature of English. The French don't allow the language to change except as permitted by governing committees.
English has actually become so widely used precisely because of its fluidity. Check out the book "Mother Tongue: English and How It Got to Be That Way."