Good Examples Of Why Grammar And Spelling Matter (25 pics)

No individual writes in or speaks languages these days, rendering his thoughts into a congeries of solecisms.

Egbert, And your point is? Language is not static What may seem to you as a "solecism" is how language evokes else we would still be using Thee's, Thou's, and Thines. "Change, retrenchment, mutilation, disguise of derivation is, then, both the inevitable and the desirable accompaniment of such composition as has formed the vocabulary of our spoken tongue. It stands connected with tendencies of essential consequence, and is part of the wise economy of speech. It contributes to conciseness and force of expression. It is the sign and means of the integration of words. It disencumbers terms of traditional remembrances, which would otherwise disturb the unity of attention that ought to be concentrated upon the sign in its relation to the thing signified. It makes of a word, instead of a congeries of independent entities, held together by a loose bond and equally crowding themselves upon the apprehension, a unity, composed of duly subordinated parts."

LANGUAGE AND THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE: TWELVE LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE.

WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY,

PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND INSTRUCTOR IN MODERN LANGUAGES IN YALE COLLEGE.

English gone to shit