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Old Apr 17, 2012 | 4:16 am
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Originally Posted by trooper
Don't like "post modernist English"? (Whatever that is...)

So, do tell.. at what point in the development of this notoriously changeable language should it have been set in stone?

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Just pulling your chain of course... but I am fascinated by calls for the English language to somehow stop changing... given its history I suspect that would be rather difficult to achieve!
FWIW neither the OP or I made any calls for the English language to stop changing, though you may have inferred so

I quite like this....

"Someone once suggested I was the most pedantic person they'd ever met.

I replied that they were quite wrong; I was the third most pedantic person they'd ever met"
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