On 1/22/2014 3:40 AM, Chris wrote:
Syntax is getting simplified due to the fact that the listener "knows what we mean", e.g. "buy one get one free". I wonder to what extent languages will be simplified one day. But this is a topic for a whole book ...
There was this article recently: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/yesterday-internet-solved-20-year-old-mystery/about how english is so redundant one can write sentences using just the first letter of each word, and it is actually understandable.
