THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Cripes, you could be talking balderdash and a growing number of people won’t know what you are talking about.
Such words are dying out because of the popularity of shortened text message-style terms, a survey suggests.
Researchers found a significant decrease in the use of words which our parents and grandparents would have uttered on an almost daily basis.
Bally, laggard, rambunctious, verily, felicitations and spiffing were among other words they claimed would confuse the text generation.
Researchers questioned 2,000 adults to mark the launch of Planet Word, a book which tells the story of language from the earliest grunts to Twitter and beyond. Read on and comment » | Thursday, October 27, 2011
My comment:
Good grammar is dying out along with the old words. How many people know the difference between 'who' and 'whom'? How many people know the difference between 'I' and 'me'? Moreover, how often do we hear people saying 'less' when the should be saying 'fewer'? The general standard of language today is saddening, sometimes even alarming. Added to this, to the young, adjectives often just mean swear words! – © Mark
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