[Bigg Red]

::...the language is sliding. It always has....::

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Yes, I try to remind myself that it always has and that, otherwise, we would be speaking Old English or Saxon or Indo-European.

I fully expect to see in my lifetime “a whole nother” and “alot” become acceptable. Don’t know what we can do about “like” as a ubiquitous interjection.

Your point that the slide is being accelerated by technology is well taken.

[Muslady]

::...the language is sliding. It always has....::

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My students are so “slangy” I have to tell some of them to speak English. Every other word is like and their words are so slurred it sounds like mush. The more excited they are the worse it gets. I think a diction course should be required in high school!

[Chuckster]

I know we're sliding, but the thread is slow today.

I fully expect to see in my lifetime “a whole nother” and “alot” become acceptable. Don’t know what we can do about “like” as a ubiquitous interjection.

How about beginning a sentence with "So"? I hear allegedly educated people doing it all the time these days.

[ichabod1]

Not to be shocking, but my favorite choice for the “worst new word of the year” was: FRONTHOLE. So incredibly dehumanizing. But somehow incredibly PERFECT for the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.