posted on Oct, 11 2010 @ 09:46 PM
reply to post by CerberusGuy
I had read somewhere that those cultures which readily accept slang and colloquialism into their tongue, typically disintegrate at a faster rate, all
things (if possible) being equal, than those which do not accept the changes. I'm not going on about anything. It is hard to just bring this up in a
formal thread context, so I thought here was as good as any place to do it. In the movie '1984' there's a guy who says 'the destruction of a
language; it's a beautiful thing, isn't it?'
It's happening here in the states too. The media have decisively taken to saying 'awn' in place of 'on'.
Awnline. Hawkey. Awnest. 'Don' becomes 'dawn'. You cannot miss this alteration if you tried to. I think it's a blending of eastern and western
American dialects, in a play to regain confidence among the wiser than they think demographic. Anyway I am not trying to be picky. It just looks odd.
It sounds right, I admit. 'could of' is really the same, phonetically, as 'could've', I know. We are unaware of how much slang is present in our
day to day conversation. Of course I can't teach English, it's my language, you see.