Decline of Language

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Originally Posted by ScylaX

Are you trying to say that it would be absurd to be annoyed by the linguistic mistakes of our peers because it doesn't change the fact you understand what they meant ?

Actually, it makes the understanding harder than if they talked correctly. We need a rich language to correctly express things in the most accurate way possible, the deterioration of that abundance lead to difficulties to correctly put into words anything that has a little depth.

Ya its you're problem not mine if you get annoyed. Try reprogramming yourself to not be so... annoyable. It doesn't make understanding harder, there is no crosstalk between "your" and "you're" because they have totally different functions in our grammar.

Also for the record, "the deterioration of that abundance lead to difficulties to correctly put into words anything that has a little depth" is ridiculously hard to read mostly because you screwed up lead(s) and you used "abundance" as the subject of a sentence which turned it into an abstract mess. So it turns out that things like verb conjugation actually are important; on the other hand, getting mad about homophony isn't.

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

For example, "I don't know nothin'". In the literal interpretation, it's a double negative, which means the person saying it actually does know something, but is understood as "I know nothing" because of talking styles.

There is no "literal interpretation" of a double negative because double negatives aren't valid in our grammar. You could argue by saying "Negation in language is like multiplying by -1" or something like that, but then you are still invoking something outside of our grammar. In Spanish if you want to make a negation, you have to negate the relevant noun phrase and then every other quantifier, which proves that there is no "literal interpretation" of double negatives because it is completely valid in Spanish to use them to mean the same thing as English's single negation. To Spanish speakers, negation isn't like multiplying by -1, it's a different concept.