evolve v. love
[QUOTE=I Love Me, Vol. I]
evolve v. love
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…and that should be quite a match! Love, the sentimental choice, is favored by 5, but don’t count out *Evolve *, who seems to just get better and better with each passing epoch!
Hmmm…this must be why they speak Chinese in Firefly sometimes…yes…it’s all starting to make sense now.
Obligatory link to Engrish.com
May I add that this effect is very noticeable for those of us with Asian SOs. I pick up accents very fast and whenever I’m around my Chinese GF I start speaking Chinglish. One time my friends asked, “why do you always make fun of her accent like that?” and I had to explain that I was doing no such thing :smack:
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
I love you. 
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:dubious: 
… :eek:
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Or, if you’re a novelty rock group from New Zealand:
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[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
“Deformed man lavatory.”
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Band name!
On second thought, not.
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
dzGª®"ýT‹Š5^ to you too, buddy!
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¹~¯›½Öº{c»Ê4ˆ»…right back at ya
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror]
Nobody is disputing that languages change over time. However, English has only changed a bit since its original form as spoken by God when he wrote the King James Bible.
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Heck, if’n English was good enough fer our LORD an’ SAVIOR, it sure is good enough for us!
Seriously, though, English may be changing, but it’ll probably still be more-or-less intelligible in 200 years. Written English will be even more intelligible; spoken language pretty much always changes faster than written language. We’ll still be speaking English in the foreseeable future (though I, for one, will liberally sprinkle Mandarin in my talk, just out of principle).
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
May I add that this effect is very noticeable for those of us with Asian SOs. I pick up accents very fast and whenever I’m around my Chinese GF I start speaking Chinglish. One time my friends asked, “why do you always make fun of her accent like that?” and I had to explain that I was doing no such thing :smack:
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Yeah. I work in a heavily Vietnamese environment, and I do this a lot. In fact, the Vietnamese do it to their language too, and it’s absolutely peppered with English (which they deny when I mention it).
“Watch out!” (potential collision with forklift etc) = “HIT HIT HIT!”
“Nearly all” = “All most” (eg. “All most of them are here” - not to be confused with “Almost”)
“I don’t have any” = “No hab!”
“You’ll pay for this” = “I fik (fix) you up!” (jokingly)
“Fu-cking” as a strange intensifier on the end of the sentence = “I fik you up - fu-cking!”
Then there is the strage verb ommision thing: “Could you please to the office?”
Native Vietnamese speakers and native English speakers alike use these - and countless other examples like them - all the time at my work. And we’re not making fun. I think a real creole is developing (if only a partial one). I like it.
[QUOTE=ignis_glaciesque]
Heck, if’n English was good enough fer our LORD an’ SAVIOR, it sure is good enough for us!
Seriously, though, English may be changing, but it’ll probably still be more-or-less intelligible in 200 years. Written English will be even more intelligible; spoken language pretty much always changes faster than written language. We’ll still be speaking English in the foreseeable future (though I, for one, will liberally sprinkle Mandarin in my talk, just out of principle).
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I once read that radio and then movies and television helped “unify” English, keeping the regional accents and idiosyncracies in the US from branching off into Chinese-style dialects. The Internet could serve that purpose, too.
[QUOTE=Rysto]
Macroevolution of languages is only a theory. No linguist has ever observed one language turning into a completely different language.
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Wait, are you saying that Old English is not sufficiently different to meet your criteria of “completely new language,” or are you saying that it hasn’t been demostrated that Old English turned into Modern English?
no jokes about melting, either with me or with language, please…
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Story here.
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I think the British could have written this same story in the 1700’s after hearing how the Colonies were changing the language. Heck, a New Yorker would probably have trouble talking to someone from LA
And here is a restaurant in China named Translate Server Error.