What happened to the English language?

Too lazy to use spell check? Further, some have never bothered to ensure they're using correct English in the first place. They literally (pun intended) don't know they're speaking jibberish. EG, those who transpose 'then' and 'than'. It's so blindingly obviously wrong to most of us, yet people keep doing it. You have to assume that they don't know it's wrong ... which begs the question, did they actually go to school? Like, ever? There's no way that would escape the attention of teachers (or even halfway sensible parents) beyond about grade 2.

 

I've read it 27 times and still don't get it.

 

Think: Department of Redundancy Dept.

 

Usually we just say, "I went to his wedding," his getting married already implied.

 

Yes, it was redundant and repetitive.

 

That's right, and he said it too too many times.

But again, I want to see whether I can sell a defense of the statement:

"I went to his wedding when he got married" could be a legitimate response to a cop investigating a burglary of the groom's house, like this:

"So, tough guy, you waited until he knew he'd be at the church getting married when you decide to break into his house. Come clean and we'll go easier on you "

Answer: "You got it all wrong, flatfoot. I didn't go to his house when he got married -- I went to his wedding when he got married."

 

Deja vu alert: Another hang up ('up'? lol) one of mine is the needless use of 'both'?

 

I've forgotten what is was that I didn't get, now but thanks anyway.

 

This is kind of a funny one to me because it gets people all tangled up: when referring to something held or owned by you and one other person, we should say, "It was my and Mary's opinion that we should serve cake."
Alternatively, we can say "It was Mary's and my opinion that ...."

For some reason people get all tangled up over "my" in this case, and they come out with "It was Mary's and I ... no, wait ... it was me and Mar-- ... I mean it was Mary and my's opinion that ...."

 

Notice that very few people use paragraphs. Every sentence is separate.
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our posts have to be one hit wonders like on twitter, the people in power run on dopamine over serotonin.

 

I haven't, until now...

What I wanted to say is; English is doing what it always has, and evolve, before being side tracked with this;

Pondering American forefathers on pot since the usage of the word dopamine was used in a topic about the fate of English; I digress.

Ask yourself, what would Shakespeare think of the English we use now?
Shakespeare, the playwright who wrote down the English language, a documented examples of Olde English.
Another example of the ever evolving English is the British Empire making the language evolve different in different parts of the world, but still being English.
American English, Australian English, British English, Broken English/Patois, Singapore English, are observable examples of mutations in English evolving separately into different versions of English over time even to today; D'oh from The Simpsons is currently in the Oxford English dictionary.

 

dopamine is the motivation brain chemical, the people in power are on cocaine not pot. cocaine enhances their motivation and creates a disconnect with those who they rule over.

when dopamine addicts control the english language, they control communications.

in world war 2 disrupting communications was critical to defeating the nazi's

 

In slang and shortcuts i imagine .

 

I've seen the word 'your' misused so often, in place of 'you're', that I reflexively do the translation. This is so common that I get tripped up when either word is used correctly.

I expect that I too will soon be misusing 'your'.

 

I think your right.

KIDDING!!!

 

Meanwhile, homonyms continue to sew discord among English-speaking peoples all across these forums.

Oh, and while I'm at it...

'Of' is not another word for 'have'.

 

'Preventative' - What is one hoping to preventate?

 

preventable unwanties, what is unwanties?
It's nothing, or is it?
I'm going to state that it's nothing, it's meaningless, it's not a word, but unwanted is.

But hey, I remember a time when Brexit reminded me of breakfast cereal, probably Weetabix?
And yes, Weetabix is a thing.

 

Toodaloo is a word from people misspelling a French word, it means 'see you later/toodaloo'

 

Language evolves.
Did Sr. Charles Darwin coin the word evolve?
Did Sr. Isaac Newton invent the word gravity?
Today, we can Google things.
And have been drinking Coca-Cola for well over a century.

 

You're correct in your opinion that using 'of ' in place of 'have' is annoying as all hell. Language was being corrupted even in the 1980's when I noticed people asking guestions such as " do you know her from 'your work' ? My answer was "no I never 'worked ' on her but she does work for the same company and in the same departmeent that I do".

Basketball players tend to say "we play intense". No you may play with intensity but I doubt it very much that you play "in tents".