Hotarla wrote:Maybe I should say that writing English has devolved...xD;; I mean, sure we're getting new words every day but I find I would rather prefer traditional English instead of all the shorthand we get these days. I don't mind change but when proper writing of 'laugh out loud' becomes 'lol', I just think it's so.......I don't know....//shrug
i'm pretty sure this is just a thing that naturally happens. like, shakespeare back in the day was considered "low language" and uncultured, so honestly it's just a matter of perspective. many of the words we take for granted now were slang/abbreviations in the past, so i guess my point is that i don't really know if "traditional" english exists as much as just "formal" and "informal"