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Language is designed to communicate ideas efficiently. If a language evolves in a specific region, it most certainly means that it has become more efficient without taking away from the scope of the idea. I do not mind it when people start off using their AIMspeak, or LOLspeak, or l33t, or Newspeak, whatever it is, to me, I ask them to not use it with me because I don't like to/can't read it. If they continue to use it: one, I rarely keep up with all these damned abbreviations and acronyms because there are a whole world of people to talk to so I don't know what they are saying, and two, it will piss me off and I will makeup an entirely new set of shorthand not common to anyone.
Once a language has become technical enough to communicate any idea, then the object is to make it efficient for the people without taking away the levels of technicality or specificity. We don't need to move towards Newspeak just quite yet. That would be double plus not good.
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