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Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

If we talk generationally as well, I totally think yuh right. Sumtimes I have no ideuh what people a' sayin'.

Grammar is my friend, howevah, so I think I'll stick to using it.

I'm not saying it's bad or anything to use it, I just wonder where we're going with it. I know the English language has radically changed in the past....I dunno, I would even say in the past 50 years or so. How does this sort of thing happen? Is it possible to say what our language will be like, let's say 5000 years from now? I mean, I know 5000 years is a long time in the life of any language, like 1000 years ago, English was a language that was so different from our own, it now has to be learned as a foreign language. Like Beowulf for example. In it's original Old English language, it's like wtf? I know the 14th century Middle English of Chauncer's "Cantebury Tales" needs to be updated to make it fully intelligible. Even Shakespears modern English can be hard to understand, and it's only around 400 years old.