Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.

[John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

Languages - all of them - are not static. They change over time, often 
rapidly. They cannot be corralled  or controlled. Witness the futility 
of L'Academie Francaise and their state-sponsored inability to reign in 
the French language. They have le picnic, le weekend, and all sorts of 
other Anglicisms, not to mention Germanic and other linguistic 
invasions. And all that for a language that is nothing more than modern 
day (albeit permuted) Latin.

While I might not like the neologisms foisted upon my ears by marketing 
departments galore, they are here to stay. You can't stop them. You have 
come down on the side of the linguistic Luddites. Me, I'll keep my ears 
open and only adopt the good changes.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
 --James D. Nicoll

My 2¢,

John Garison



Sarah Stegall said the following on 2/2/2009 1:55 PM:
> The English language does not belong to one company, it
> belongs to all of us. No one person or body of persons has the right to
> arbitrarily re-define words, make up words, or change words. Nothing,
> and I mean NOTHING that I have encountered in more than a dozen years in
> this business pisses me off more than the arrogance of marketing
> departments that freely and oblivously play hob with a thousand year old
> language--of which they are, largely, ignorant.
>
> I have risked my job more than once, refusing point blank to mangle my
> native tongue in order to suit the whims of a marketing director who
> can't even spell. He does not have the right to re-configure this
> language. If anyone does, poets do. Nobody else.
>   
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