Oddly
I have an irrational hatred of people who use "language is in a state of constant flux" as an excuse for their own shoddy spelling, speaking and thinking skills.

Making up entirely new words for things is one thing - Shakespeare and Orwell did it a lot, as did many other great authors; tecchies do it a lot; even B3tards are pretty good at this (at least when it comes to swearing) - and if the words are useful or witty or both, entirely admirable.

Confusing your, you're and yore; pronouncing an 'R' as a 'W' or 'V'; peppering every sentence with 'like' or 'innit' or 'yna a ah min'; thinking reflexive pronouns are somehow the gold standard for formal business English; spelling like you're writing a text message in the early days when you were getting charged by the character; getting the hump when anyone asks you what you mean if you say something they don't fully understand; getting even more of a hump when someone else uses a word which you don't understand yourself - these are all just pig fucking ignorance.

But that's just me.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:42, 7 replies)

Language can only change....
... at a rate of less than one complete revolution per generation.

If it changes faster than that, people stop being able to talk to each other.

*click*
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:51, closed)

It is just you
and a hand full of other twunts on the site.
(waxdart hello., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 18:04, closed)

To me it's about aiding communication.
If you omit apostrophes, use homophones interchangeable and use words with different meanings as if they are synonymous then you're making the language less efficient. On the other hand, if you are verbing nouns, nouning verbs and adverbing both you are being creative and adding to the language.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 18:13, closed)

It seems somewhat harsh to hate people with a speech impediment which prevents correct pronunciation of certain phonemes.

Yore other point, about mixing up homonyms, is one with witch I couldn't agree moor.
(Turangalila, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 18:58, closed)

Quite right, too.
Laziness is not the same as evolution.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 20:32, closed)

Don't worry.
Soon enough, they'll put you in a home with other like minded individuals, and leave you to rot in your own piss.

Innit?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 22:37, closed)

wake.....up
and look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped and puddenpadded, very like a whale's egg farced with pemmican, as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled obeli cayennepeppercast over the text, calling unnecessary attention to errors, omissions, repetitions and misalignments:

Let manner and matter of this
for these our sporting times be cloaked up in the language of
blushfed porporates that an Anglican ordinal, not reading his
own rude dunsky tunga, may ever behold the brand of scarlet
on the brow of her of Babylon and feel not the pink one in his
own damned cheek.
(speranza, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 5:32, closed)