Not all of them. The Vietnamese word for cat is a perfect example.
Words that can travel across continents, oceans and time. Some words can set them selves in other languages and people with a good ear can pick them out.
Thous are generally long words that the lazy ignorant don’t use and don’t alter.
Americans don’t even understand there Constitution. A little over 200 years.
" The modern written language (Modern Standard Arabic) is derived from the language of the Quran (known as Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic). It is widely taught in schools and universities, and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, government, and the media. The two formal varieties are grouped together as Literary Arabic, which is the official language of 26 states and the liturgical language of Islam. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
English has gotten pathetic. To afraid to tell people when there doing it wrong. Ego is way too important.
The Vietnamese word for cat coming from… where exactly? Which language god bestowed that word upon humanity?
You didn’t answer my question, by the way. WHO decides which words are “proper”? Raving like lunatic and calling people lazy and ignorant doesn’t answer that in the slightest.
Which people, in your mind, are the ultimate arbiters of what is “proper” English, and what isn’t?
Well we used to have teachers who taught vocabulary building. Helping students learn words and understand there meanings.
The Cat God of course. Cats go around saying cat all the time but in Vietnamese.
Umm do you know what an onamonapia is?
Age, acceptance. and the rest of what I said. Perhaps some day noom. (can raving lunatics type?)
Names? I’m horrible on names. So I’ll go by things done. The woman who wrote the book Eats shoots and leaves. It’s about punctuation. I like adding words to the language. After they have been proven. Come out of slang hood.
Altering the meanings of words? That should be punishable by HIGH SCHOOL!!!
Did you hear Scott Manly correcting his English!?! That was great. And the discussion on the correct word to use when a light source is getting further away. Is nice to know every one isn’t lazy.
So, if teachers are the authority, and you believe that teachers are no longer teaching this, doesn’t that make it unimportant?
Yes. Yes I do. Do you know how to spell it correctly? Or are you just too lazy to bother?
Also, are you familiar with the amount of cultural influence and relativism that is involved in onomatopoeia? There are often huge discrepancies in how people from different cultures describe different sounds.
You’re starting to sound like a cranky old man who just wants all these new fangled words off of his damn lawn.
And what happens if what people accept changes with time?
Uh huh. What about the author of Introduction to the Grammar of the English Language. Or the entire field of linguistics? Because the study of language itself takes a descriptive approach to grammar.
Most slang is using alternative meanings for already existing words.
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And the discussion on the correct word to use when a light source is getting farther away.[/quote]
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that for you, too. Also, your hypocrisy is noted.
I’m honestly just waiting for him to acknowledge that the astronomer may be a better authority on astronomical terminology than him. So, you know, a little bit from column A, and a little bit from column B.
Not the point. The names are dumb so stop it and use better ones.
Oh look it’s the sun Sun and the moon Moon. Congratulations on a linguistic fail.
Oh no we flue millions of light years across space looking for home is that the sun or the Sun?
When people are talking the capitals can’t be herd.
people who get into thread solely to complain about it. I have power over them