07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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The Corrupting of Englishmen in Their Mother Tongue
In written records, and you have some historical records. In addition to socrates, there's a bunch of people complaining about latin errors that people were making in kind of mediaeval latin. A lot of those so called errors became totally common and unremarkable conventions in the romance languages. And thus, in the course of time, bariged them both, and spoke neither good french nor good english. Yes, my favourite example. Ao, it ser much.
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