It's kinda interesting from a oral tradition standpoint...I'm far looser with spoken language than written, and that's part of the fun of language. But in places that relied on oral tradition, it has to be pretty important to keep some semblance of formality in the speech so that things stay intact over time.
I'm no linguist, but one of the cooler scientific papers I've ever read was about the distribution of pronunciation of Icelandic (I think...I may be wrong, and it may have been a Scandinavian island, but anywho...). Point being, there was variation occurring slightly going from north to south, which was gradual, but made it so that people on the extremes had a harder time understanding each other than normal.
I'm sure that's pretty natural, but I guess because it's a "closed system", you could see how it exactly evolved over time. It was nifty. There was also a split almost dead down the center of the island, where people on the east side said something a specific way, and the west a different way.
I'm going to go off on a weird tangent, but sometimes I wonder about Iceland in regards to Atlantis. Knew a girl from Iceland in college, and she was uncommonly intelligent. Like, preternatural intelligence. Maybe it's coming from a population that had to adapt, but I dunno. Her spoken and written English were top notch. Brutally attractive too. She just seemed to thoroughly outclass everyone, even some of the teachers.
Yep we’re adding malapropisms to the dictionary now to accommodate dummies. Can’t just tell them they’re wrong, heavens no. Hampster becomes a valid spelling if enough people make the mistake. What do you expect when they made Ebonics an official dialect. I’m sorry, African American Vernacular English. Imagine having such bad grammar that they give up correcting you and just accept that you’re retarded.
Wouldn't it be great if supposably was in the dictionary, but simply put as a misspelling of supposedly, and that it is sometimes used in jest?
There's no real reason to give it its own definition if it's the same definition as "supposedly"!
It's kinda interesting from a oral tradition standpoint...I'm far looser with spoken language than written, and that's part of the fun of language. But in places that relied on oral tradition, it has to be pretty important to keep some semblance of formality in the speech so that things stay intact over time.
I'm no linguist, but one of the cooler scientific papers I've ever read was about the distribution of pronunciation of Icelandic (I think...I may be wrong, and it may have been a Scandinavian island, but anywho...). Point being, there was variation occurring slightly going from north to south, which was gradual, but made it so that people on the extremes had a harder time understanding each other than normal.
I'm sure that's pretty natural, but I guess because it's a "closed system", you could see how it exactly evolved over time. It was nifty. There was also a split almost dead down the center of the island, where people on the east side said something a specific way, and the west a different way.
I'm going to go off on a weird tangent, but sometimes I wonder about Iceland in regards to Atlantis. Knew a girl from Iceland in college, and she was uncommonly intelligent. Like, preternatural intelligence. Maybe it's coming from a population that had to adapt, but I dunno. Her spoken and written English were top notch. Brutally attractive too. She just seemed to thoroughly outclass everyone, even some of the teachers.
The white guys.
Yep we’re adding malapropisms to the dictionary now to accommodate dummies. Can’t just tell them they’re wrong, heavens no. Hampster becomes a valid spelling if enough people make the mistake. What do you expect when they made Ebonics an official dialect. I’m sorry, African American Vernacular English. Imagine having such bad grammar that they give up correcting you and just accept that you’re retarded.
Stay tuned to "libary, amberlance, and axe"
Oh... You again, in every post saying the same thing...
Ask OP why he floods this forum with what he outright admits is fucking garbage. Go on then