Language evolves over time. It can also be trendy. Here’s the difference: Water carves mountains out of stone over millennia. Many generations pass
by the same local mountain, noticing none of these tiny developments. This is a mountain evolving.
Water carves out snow lickety split. Relative to the evolution of language, this is more like word or phrase trendiness. It comes and goes. And my gripe is with much of this trendiness. So here goes Round III. Continue reading “Language Habits III (A series of occasional rants)”
