From: phil osborn (philosborn@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 30 2000 - 23:51:20 MDT
>From: "Gina Miller" <nanogirl@halcyon.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Hi-Low, or Art for Money (Was) Steven King's The Plant
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:13:11 -0700
>
>Actually I had an advanced class specifically on the study of Shakespeare
>and his works when I was in high school. My teacher explained that his
>written diction was embellished, and that common folk were not speaking so
>eloquently. (thee and thou art etc.) I don't know how valid that is, but I
>had asked her about it, and that was her answer.
>Gina
>
>Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > But Spike EVERYBODY talked like that back then, forsooth. Its a pretty
>clear
> > progression from Chaucer to Shakespeare to the present day that the
>grammar of
> > the english language is devolving to some point in the future of pure
>gutteral.
>
In case you've never experienced this, there are chat rooms in which the
resemblance to standard English is rather tenuous. The participants,
usually high-school kids or younger, but obviously international in
background, have evolved their own semi-phonetic Englich derivative in which
entire phrases are often condensed into a single word that more or less
phonetically sounds like the original English - very much like the
taxi-drivers language in Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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