A lot of people feel that a language is an important thing
to keep intact, and free of corruption. It is of course important that people
don't sully a language to the extent nobody can really understand it.
Ironically, the English language has changed so much the last 1000 years it's
not even funny. Stealing bits and pieces from every language there is, dead
ones and still breathing ones, to form a pseudo-Germanic language with
overtones of Latin, Greek, French, middle-English etc etc etc. So why all of a
sudden do linguists cry out that the recent Internet/Cell-phone Short Message
Service are corrupting the language? Allow me to explain.
The linguist is lazy. Instead of adapting to changes in a language (ie learning it all over again), he just fights to preserve it as it is instead. At least a little, by participating in seminars nobody goes to. A cozy static quality of being is why Judaism and Christianity is still being used as religions today, instead of evolving new ones, surely it can be applied to language as well. Really, let's just force-feed English to all the people around the world. Who needs a fucking "identity", pfff.
Some also think that's a good argument, if you lose a language, you lose your cultural and not to mention your national identity. So why do nationalists moan over the loss of a language they love? Nationalists are lazy. Instead of pushing actual issues, they just blame it on the Jews and burn them. Problem seemingly solved. Until those dumb japs decide to do something idiotic again.
Let's just all stop the communication and all these issues
about linguistics and semantics will disappear. Colloquialism will surely bring
about the apocalypse; you all know this to be true!
