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Talk:Devolution of language (view source)
Revision as of 04:21, December 27, 2008
, 04:21, December 27, 2008no edit summary
:It's perfectly clear. Vocabularies have shrunk, the meanings of words have contracted. Now, I recommend you make substantial contributions rather than talk, talk, talking. Spouting gibberish about printing presses shows how keen you are to avoid accurate information. Does the White House Press Secretary only deal with newspapers? [[User:RodWeathers|- Rod Weathers]] 23:07, 26 December 2008 (EST)
:It's perfectly clear. Vocabularies have shrunk, the meanings of words have contracted. Now, I recommend you make substantial contributions rather than talk, talk, talking. Spouting gibberish about printing presses shows how keen you are to avoid accurate information. Does the White House Press Secretary only deal with newspapers? [[User:RodWeathers|- Rod Weathers]] 23:07, 26 December 2008 (EST)
::Now, hold on a moment. Talking can be a worthwhile contribution if it helps to refine an article. I'm within 90/10. Meanings of words change over time, everyone knows that, but new words are coined on a regular basis to fill the niches left in the language. The word "silly" has at various times meant "happy", "innocent", "holy", and "foolish". When a word which means ''X'' changes to mean ''Y'', but the concept of ''X'' still remains in the language, a new word gets coined (or an old one gets adapted) to mean ''X'''. My "spouting gibberish about printing presses" is not an avoidance of accurate information; I'm trying to show how it is understandable why that particular word might change its meaning. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 23:21, 26 December 2008 (EST)