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It's unusual, as prior to the modern day most societies haven't communicated as much via the written word. Currently we do, and this incorporates our working lives, but also all/a lot of our social activities nowadays, even communicating with families!

This is surely going to result in massive evolution in the use of language, as use is the final arbiter.
What's odd though, and possibly good long term, is the choice of words/concepts used, and the impact of these is finally being closely scrutinised, even by ourselves. Hopefully this enables better communication.
 
Errrm. Egypt Rome and Greece used the written word a lot. As did Assyria, the Hittites, Persia and ancient India as well
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Errrm. Egypt Rome and Greece used the written word a lot. As did Assyria, the Hittites, Persia and ancient India as well
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I imagine their literacy rates were a minute fraction of what we have today though, and I doubt there was as much papyrus knocking about as there currently are mobile phones.
 
Tom Hark said:
And then some smart arse will post, You mean either "The Americanism 'math' ..." or "The Americanisation of 'maths' to 'math' ...". The problem is that most people either write as they speak, which is rarely grammatically correct unless you're a complete twat, or attempt unsuccessfully to recall and apply rules of grammar they haven't used since they were at school. I abhor the way in which the King's English is becoming bastardised by YouTube and Netflix, with even grown men now talking about 'bus rowtes' and 'candy bars'. As a copy-editor, I'd be well placed to be TWF's grammar Obergruppenführer but, sadly, correct English is the preserve of the ever-shrinking nerdy (to employ another absorbed Americanism) minority of which I am a member. Since we live in a democracy, I've decided to keep my own counsel and simply feel quietly superior.* I imagine your legal background makes you similarly picky discerning, Paddy, but I guess suppose, as WH implies, so long as a poster's meaning is clear, there's no need to worry too much about how it's communicated.

*Not entirely serious.
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Don't let B3h see this he'll be hitting the report button like he's doing the 100m on Track and Field.
 
"Correct" grammar is always changing and differs across history, culture, and geography.

I'm not sure why this riles people up so badly.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Errrm. Egypt Rome and Greece used the written word a lot. As did Assyria, the Hittites, Persia and ancient India as well
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Not in dispute. But historically people have communicated and/or got information via talking rather than reading.
@marhas it right, phones, laptops etc with social media/screens is the main form of communication now, for the majority.
 
The phrase "Don't think you're sitting there all day, doing nothing" was invented by my wife in 1989 and has now entered into modern communication #fakt
 
Paul said:
The phrase "Don't think you're sitting there all day, doing nothing" was invented by my wife in 1989 and has now entered into modern communication #fakt
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She must be tired, having been wrong every day for the last 33 years.
 
I predict in about fifty years the words lose and losing will no longer exist
 
Boozad said:
"Off of". Fuck that shit back to wherever it came from. Radio 1 probably.
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What's the context?

Over here it would definitely be common to hear something like, "two tracks off of the album" interchangeably with something like, "two tracks on the album".
 
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