Comments on: The Right to Write Right. http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-right-to-write-right/ When being stupid is smart Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:07:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: happy_moron http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-right-to-write-right/comment-page-1/#comment-882 happy_moron Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:30:27 +0000 http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-right-to-write-right/#comment-882 Nice rhetoric ;-) It would be unfair to crucify Pullum; he's acutely aware of the dynamic nature of language: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1324 I think the thing that bit me most about this was that the very act of questioning can be more powerful than any answer received. Nice rhetoric ;-) It would be unfair to crucify Pullum; he’s acutely aware of the dynamic nature of language:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1324

I think the thing that bit me most about this was that the very act of questioning can be more powerful than any answer received.

]]> By: Amba Sewa http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-right-to-write-right/comment-page-1/#comment-880 Amba Sewa Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:20:18 +0000 http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2009/04/15/the-right-to-write-right/#comment-880 I would agree with you. A language will flow its changes as a river cuts new channels through the paths of least resistance and find more efficient ways of saying things. Users will mold it to their needs. And though purists wave red flags and make dire pronouncements it will willy-nilly bow to the will of the masses. It will also borrow convenient ways of communicating from those it brushes against. Only strict isolation in a mountain valley, or on some forgotten isle will ward against this, and even there things will change. I would agree with you. A language will flow its changes as a river cuts new channels through the paths of least resistance and find more efficient ways of saying things. Users will mold it to their needs. And though purists wave red flags and make dire pronouncements it will willy-nilly bow to the will of the masses. It will also borrow convenient ways of communicating from those it brushes against. Only strict isolation in a mountain valley, or on some forgotten isle will ward against this, and even there things will change.

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