This is elitist. Language is descriptive not prescriptive

khedoros1 · 2025-07-29T05:17:52 1753766272

It's a throw-away line in a movie. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

xboxnolifes · 2025-07-29T04:14:01 1753762441

And yet we have multiple languages. So, at some point English must stop being English.

reilly3000 · 2025-07-29T04:18:57 1753762737

But must we apply judgment to such boundaries? If it ceases to be English is it ‘good’ again?

xboxnolifes · 2025-07-29T07:49:16 1753775356

Must judgement be applied when categorizing? Yes, because categorization is judgement.

scoreandmore · 2025-07-29T04:16:35 1753762595

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esseph · 2025-07-29T05:03:18 1753765398

Language is fluid and changes all the time, which is why we are not conversing on this website in Shakespeare's English.

The history of this pattern over the ages continues to repeat itself and shows no sign of going away across languages.

scoreandmore · 2025-07-29T17:10:21 1753809021

We can literally read the original folios, so much for your point.