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My Grammar and I...Or Should That Be Me?
It is in the nature of a living language to evol inventions require new words, foreign influences vocabulary, and social changes give people more or write at length. The monks who copied out medieval short forms to save themselves time, which pas language as ligatures in words such as mediaval, deem archaic. In our own time great revolutions because of e-mailing and texting, and who know dictionary of 2028 may well contain the word gr8 (
We cannot stop English from changing-and ardent, dyed-in-the-wool pedants waste their time tr can do our best to ensure that it does not become along the way, and to preserve its best features. Si sloppiness often leads to ambiguity-one of the grammar rules try to avoid a few rules are surely And frankly, if you can't bring yourself to agree might as well stop reading now and get your mon the book starts to look tattered.
Rules were very much in the minds of the st eighteenth century, who, fearing for the health o language, decided to impose on it a grammar syst fix it "good and proper." Unfortunately for us, these specialists in ancient Greek and Latin-not German from which English is derived-so they imposed Latin rules that didn't fit too comfortably with E creating all manner of unnecessary complications.
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