I have seen that Meme.

Agreed. Because of English's "flexibility" it also is constantly evolving. I cringe when I see the lists of new words added to a dictionary where the people using these "new" words can't probably understand half of what is already available.

I also love old insults: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words...
also: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...

I've often suggested that a few individuals I encountered to attempt airborn intercourse with a
rotating toridial pastry. I leave the translation to your imagination. English can be fun at times!
Such as the mathematican's recommendation that it is wise to avoid Drunk Deriving with the admonishment Don't Drink and Derive.

YEP!

Thanks, I'll check it out.

And I thought that was just uneducated articulation. I use it sometimes to be funny.

Modern reading instruction tends toward the look-say alias whole-word method, in which children look at an unfamiliar word and guess it based on context. Teach children to rely on context, and they will not create but will instead rely on thought patterns already known. Dangerous.

Also, with modern text-to-speech software and blabbermouths who use it and are too lazy to proofread, homophones abound in print nowadays and so does preventable confusion. The laziness is inferrable from preventable wordiness too. The old days in which type had to be set by hand had a strong disciplinary consequence: brevity was prized.

Compare my uploads at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbLr..., which have a very high fact density (concepts per minute) relative to most other modern videos, and you will see the difference between careful use of English and its being squandered by the empty-headed verbose. (You may learn something pro-Galt, too. Many of my videos are politically oriented and include health-are concepts.)

What I find interesting about English is that it invites careless evolution, so much so that one can observe changes within a single generation. The latest odd change I've observed is a "silent" t in some words becoming common. I first noticed it while watching Battlebots, with the announcer saying "It's robot figh'ing time!" I soon realized it wasn't just there, with many other instances, with teenagers saying they were "wai'ing" for something. A silent t has been around for some time, in such words as "listening," with almost no one pronouncing the t, so that it sounds more like "lissening."

Misuse or substitution of words leads to new meanings within the language. What used to be the statement that one was "homing in" on a solution (homing as following a course to a destination) has more frequently become "honing in" (honing as sharpening).

Rapid evolution of English is why it's almost impossible to comprehend Chaucer's middle English prose. It's one of the singular charms of our native speech.

Entanglement Lmao.

She he! Him her! She he! Him her! She he! Him her!
To anyone me dino may have offended, allow me to make the following alteration~~
SHE HE! HIM HER! SHE HE! HIM HER! SHE HE! HIM HER!
AURGH!
Me dino thought about including "gals! guys!" in the above snub at lefty group think; but for Philosoraptor me, it softened the impact in an aesthetic kinda way.

👍

The "upside" of such a language is that eventually "awesome" and "like" will be replaced in colloquial speech. The "downside" is that the replacements may be even more offensive.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Good one, OUC. 👍

Correct...confounding our language since the fall of Babylon...

Of course my water brother...we share the same water, (information).

I too have those complaints. Spell the way we pronounce or pronounce the way we spell...which in some cases the latter would be virtually impossible.
And what's up with backward letters?

And almost anything can be conveyed cleanly and neatly...if that is what is intended. It also can be deliberately twisted, which is what the Left intends and practices.

English is the best language for music, with many short words (mono-syllabic) and many rhyming words. Most other languages use conjugation to combine subject with verb resulting in much longer (multi-syllabic) words which are harder to rhyme and harder to time. Even though English is the "bastard" of all languages, it has a simplicity that is unrivaled. Just don't get my wife started on all the anomalies and exceptions... ;)

Thanks for posting. I too copied this paragraph as a good summary.
“English is a wonderfully sloppy language. German-based, heavily influenced by Latin and French, with words borrowed from Spain, Italy, Egypt, and many other countries, English is an international goulash of sounds and syllables. (Goulash, by the way, comes from Hungary.) When we use those words with love and care, and we bring light and clarity to our world. Use them negligently, and we end up with ugliness, obfuscation, and a failure to communicate.”

pseudo-in(tell)ectuals...but I have a better word for that: Anti-Lectual.

Here is an aggravating example...https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images...

They cannot write what they think as they do not think.
They write to obscure, to cover the lack of thought.
Pomposity and turgidity (ok- excess formality and long words) are used to impress the ignorant, but unfortunately, it works, it gets grants (money from government or universities).

We treat them as being stupid but in truth, they are evil.

Spot on! And it's deliberate.

Just like our language, America too, is a culture made from many cultures bound by common principles.

If you mess with that, divide us from that all encompassing culture...it gets ugly...
...and that is exactly what we are experiencing today..."ugliness, obfuscation and a failure to communicate."