It is of great interest to me how your language has changed over the centuries. I expected eventually your species would eventually learn to clarify what you said when you realized 'Ugg' didn't get your point across.
I even expected it when your kind moved away from Latin and Hebrew and created your own languages, such as Cantonese, Italian and English.
What I didn't really expect, is how you would learn how to mangle your own speech patterns and twist words around to mean entirely different things. Remember when something 'fantastic' meant something truly horrifying-like demons? Now it means something that is really interesting, or 'cool'. (Don't get me started on THAT word.) Truth be told, some of the things you humans find fantastic horrify me anyway-like fast cars and scary movies.
What about 'outrageous'? When I see old Grammy footage from the eighties I asked myself why getting an award so offended Lionel Ritchie. And why was he smiling? Sigh.
And you are still doing it-even when you are on your computers. You are skipping steps as you go. What about LOL and BTW. Are you too lazy to type 'By the Way'? The faster your lives get, the shorter and more abrupt your speech becomes.
I suspect it won't be long until your kind goes back to saying things like 'Ugg.'
Ha! So true.
ReplyDeleteJust wait until your "new" teens start in with their own language. Have Zach and Kayla expained "Legit" and "for realz" and the definition of "G"?
Brace yourself Thoeba, you're in for a ride.
Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard enough to understand them as it is! Is language evolution something they can outgrow?