maksio5 wrote:
sooo, progress = raping and cutting a language down, 'simplyfying', untill eventually it becomes grunts and barks again?
Exactly! *Nosebumps Maksio, then gives him a friendly rex trample*
If you simplify a language, you lose more and more of its subtleties of meaning until you can't communicate at all because no one can get across their point!
Written language is especially important, because there aren't any gestures or expressions or physical contexts to use to work out what the other person means - you have to rely solely on what you read. And when what you read has several meanings because the person who wrote it didn't bother to use grammar or
totally missed out the key word that gives specific meaning to an otherwise generic term, then you're more likely to misread or misunderstand and defy the whole point of language.
Language if the pinnacle of human achievement, people - give it the respect it deserves!