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Originally Posted by chucksabr
Language is a living organic creature, and it changes in ways to suit the people who speak it. In that way, it can never be incorrect, as long as the majority of people decide on they think is correct.
You want to live someplace where they take the notion of what's correct in language seriously like a heart attack? You want to live in France, then.  |
I see my edit was too slow. Hilarious. (it should also be noted that anything in English that isn't mainstream English is generally referred to as a "dialect" or even "slang" rather than a "language".).
*di·a·lect
(noun)
"a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially." also "a language considered as one of a group that have a common ancestor".