I was doing ok before I ran into 'ague' which I have no clue how to pronounce 
Language is a living thing. It changes from year to year and generation to generation.
Some of this is good: http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/]Logical Punctuation (and we can hear all the programers in the room say "Finally!")
Some of this is bad: shit has lost almost all it's meaning, even as a generic invective.
Some of this I'm not sure of: Y'all being used as a gender-neutral second person plural personal pronoun.
But any language that has been around for even a few generations will have picked up a few idiosyncrasies. It just doesn't help that american english made no concerted effort to do any sort of pruning of it's parental language. I mean inflammable? and cleave?
Really?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
Language is a living thing. It changes from year to year and generation to generation.
Some of this is good: http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/]Logical Punctuation (and we can hear all the programers in the room say "Finally!")
Some of this is bad: shit has lost almost all it's meaning, even as a generic invective.
Some of this I'm not sure of: Y'all being used as a gender-neutral second person plural personal pronoun.
But any language that has been around for even a few generations will have picked up a few idiosyncrasies. It just doesn't help that american english made no concerted effort to do any sort of pruning of it's parental language. I mean inflammable? and cleave?
Really?
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy