English standards have not slipped

[Ethel]

A joy to read a grammatically correct quote in today's paper:

"Then I had to call the local farmer, from whom I rent the field, to come and help me with the situation. He was able to tell them who I was and explain that I was renting the field from him."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-105978 0/Black-farmer-quizzed-police-THREE-times-susp icion-stealing-field.html

:)

[Bbbananas]

Cor blimey oldgit - you certainly live up to your name don't you. You could prefix it by the word miserable or pedantic to make it more suitable.

Where would this forum be without people like you, you brighten up my day.

[anotheoldgit]

Quinlad

F*cking hell, that's typical.

[anotheoldgit]

Proper Bananas

Always ready to please.

[Bbbananas]

Wow. I think I know you. I think I was once married to you. And you know, darhlink, I was always ready to please...

[Rosetta]

Please, anotheoldgit, lets not now degenerate into who implied or inferred what. I have no desire to become one of those users on this site who will squabble over everything and nothing.
Pax?

[Lucy Thomas]

To get back to the original topic.

The implication on here seems to be that because the 'yooof' of today has very little grasp of correct English grammar, we should dumb down to their level.

Well, most of them are as innumerate as they are illiterate. Does that mean that we have to accept that two plus two is now five and given their lack of basic facts, Stonehenge is really in China.

Wedges and thin ends, I'm afraid.

[Quinlad]

Interesting that you've not written your post in Elizabethan vernacular.

Why do you think that is? Have you dumbed it down by 400 years?

[ludwig]

I suppose I'm basically on the side of the 'evolutionists' here. Language evolves because new words are added (software, bonking) others fall into disuse (verily, forsooth) and meanings change (gay). So far so good.

?However, there are some rules aren't there. If I spell language like this 'langwidge' - or put the question mark at the beginning of the sentence, that's not part of the evolutionary process is it? it's just plain wrong*.

(*or plainly incorrect if you prefer)