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Originally posted by uncle phil
shakran, you're talking an evolution of hundreds of years, which is much less than the one or two hundred our "american" language has been around. i don't believe we've lost the rules of grammar over that period of time...(and i loved grindle...)
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We haven't lost them, but they have changed. Actually a LOT has changed in those 200 years. the letter S is no longer written like a curly f (this makes a big difference - just ask a grade-school kid to read a print of writing from around the 1770's. ... "Thomaf Painef common senf" is what you'll hear! Additionally, "the" is no longer spelled "ye", and in fact most people now falsely believe "ye" is pronouned "yee" rather than "thee." I note that the ye-the changeover is much like the who-whom changeover.
Really, losing "whom" to "who" is of far less concern regarding the perceived erosion of our language than is the PC concept that we must define slang and idiotic dialects as english. Case in point, the push several years ago in California to teach classes in "ebonics."