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    #16
    Re: Predictions for (English) Language Evolution

    I have an excuse Dani,second childhood and al that...
    MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

    all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
    NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
    don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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      #17
      Re: Predictions for (English) Language Evolution

      Originally posted by DanieMarie View Post
      There seems to be a infantilization of English going on at the moment. I feel like everyone on Facebook is using baby talk. I don't think it's going away. A few years ago, it was "cray cray" for crazy. Now it's turning "adult" into a verb and dropping the "of" in "because of." I predict that in a few years, people will be talking like children.
      *shudders*

      I had a relative in his fifties use "cray cray" in a discussion last year. That phrase can go die in a fire.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        #18
        Re: Predictions for (English) Language Evolution

        I've heard what you folks used to say in the sixties and seventies and it's just as ridiculous.

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          #19
          Re: Predictions for (English) Language Evolution

          Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
          *shudders*

          I had a relative in his fifties use "cray cray" in a discussion last year. That phrase can go die in a fire.
          It sort of reminds me of how the characters talk in the post-apocalyptic section of "Cloud Atlas" (both the movie and the book, but especially the book).

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          Originally posted by ThePaganMafia View Post
          I've heard what you folks used to say in the sixties and seventies and it's just as ridiculous.
          I was born in 1984, and a lot of the people using the current slang are members of my own generation. So, I think I have good grounds to complain.

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