Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> writes
Sometime back years ago a thread touched on the evolution of languages
and I made the point they tended to change rapidly until the advent of
the printing press, which pretty much began fixing it in place once
more people agreed on how things should be spelled (spelt for you
Brits) and pronounced. But right this very minute, we're witnessing a
tiny language shift before our very eyes, the product of political
correctness. Apparently, it is now acceptable in many circles to use
the pronoun "they" in place of "him or her." As in "When someone comes
into that building, they are often confused by the signs in the lobby."
When I was a kid that would have been a red circle and the note in the
margin, "Incorrect Antecedent."
Language is pretty fascinating stuff, isn't it?
Best,R.E.F.
I have been using it that way for decades, though don't blame me for
starting it.
I wonder if you have seen the item on pizza's where US Congress has
ruled that a pizza is a vegetable because of the amount of tomato paste?
This is an example of premature evolution of language. Not only have we
tomatoes mutating from fruit into vegetables, we now have an anti-health
food becoming 'green' as a vegetable :)
So its of to the phone to call "Domino's Vegetable", though it sounds a
but of a mouthful to me <g>
<http://www.thejournal.ie/us-congress-rules-that-pizza-is-a-vegetable-282
033-Nov2011/>
--
John
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