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[Gravity Aided]

Hardly hear them called trousers over here at all, rather pants, short for pantaloons, I guess.

 

[hoopdriver]

No. I wouldn't have decried it, just as I'm not decrying the apparent resurrection of 'gotten' in British English now. But I probably would have noticed and commented on it, as I'm doing now.

Fair enough.

Didn't mean to jump on my own soapbox!

 

[robjh]

English is a language that is allowed to develop. Spanish (castellano), on the other hand, isn't given much freedom to develop.

I don't know that much about Spain and which body is supposed to regulate the language, but assuming it's similar to the Academie Francaise in France I don't rate its chances of holding up change. The language will develop anyway as its users influence each other in a myriad ways, and the guardians of the 'proper' language always end up by (grudgingly) accepting reality, just a few decades too late.

 

[david k]

[QUOTE 3484499, member: 259"]But who are 'we'? I'm English and I speak it very well, thank you very much. And I have always said 'gotten'.[/QUOTE]
I follow you now, I think your experience is fairly exceptional, I was talking in general terms

 

[david k]

[QUOTE 3484776, member: 9609"]why do they put "pair" before Scissors, Stilsons Pliers etc?[/QUOTE]
Stilsons , do you mean pipe wrench sir

 

[david k]

Hardly hear them called trousers over here at all, rather pants, short for pantaloons, I guess.

Kecks

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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[david k]

I don't know that much about Spain and which body is supposed to regulate the language, but assuming it's similar to the Academie Francaise in France I don't rate its chances of holding up change. The language will develop anyway as its users influence each other in a myriad ways, and the guardians of the 'proper' language always end up by (grudgingly) accepting reality, just a few decades too late.

Young people have the largest influence on language there was a program on about it not long ago, I agree change will happen anyway, I don't like it I dare say others didn't but it's going to happen continually

 

[david k]

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Your keyboard has 'got' stuck

 

[winjim]

The language will develop anyway as its users influence each other in a myriad ways,

Are you using myriad as a noun or as an adjective? Please pick one.

 

[Fnaar]

Get got got
Forget forgot forgotten
Beget begat begotten

 

[winjim]

Ooh, is that an order? There's nothing wrong with 'in a myriad ways', just as 'in a thousand ways' or 'in a billion ways' would also be fine.

There is everything wrong with it.

 

[BrumJim]

http://racistsgettingfired.tumblr.com/tagged/GOTTEN
?

 

[nickyboy]

Myriad is a noun and an adjective. You can use it as a noun like the word "hundreds"...."there were myriads of people riding to Llandudno"...except it means "extremely large number". Or you can use it like TMN did

 

[winjim]

Go on, please give us your explanation then, rather than just issuing edicts.

You are aware that I lack the authority to issue either order or edict? I, personally, don't like that usage, which was all I thought mattered in the context of this thread.