The latest New International Version of Scripture turned the normal use of “he” to “he or she,” but even more egregiously, turned the individual use of “he/he or she” to corporate “they” - for no other reason than to be counted politically correct (while being unashamedly grammatically incorrect). The world is being dumbed down in so many ways; language is one facet of that.
We notice it, but can we stop it?
“The latest New International Version of Scripture turned the normal use of “he” to “he or she,” but even more egregiously, turned the individual use of “he/he or she” to corporate “they”
Our pastor calls that the “Not Inspired Version”.
“The world is being dumbed down in so many ways; language is one facet of that.
We notice it, but can we stop it?”
I think not - what has amazed me since I started learning Latin and then Sanskrit in the late 90s was how language doesn’t get MORE complicated over the centuries but gets simpler.
so - if you take Indo-European languages - you have 8 declinations like in Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, Proto-slavic etc. - genitive, dative, locative, nominative, accusative, etc. but then it gets simpler:
Standard German has4, but proto-germanic had 6.
Romance languages have 2 or 3, but then you have the creole pidgin language of English (a germanic language with most of its vocabulary from Romance languages) which tossed out the cases, the gender itself
And now it is losing its perfective tenses etc.