![]() Namely, in standard English, many verbs come in different forms for present, past and past participle: “sing,” “sang,” “sung” “take,” “took,” “taken.” But in colloquial English, there’s a tendency to use the past form as the participle form as well. But while that change is happening, we tend to see it as decay, sloth, maybe even a scourge.Ī great example of this is what is happening with English’s past tense forms - I hear from someone appalled about it roughly once a month. The bigger theme is that we all know language inevitably changes it’s the way we got from Latin to French or from Beowulf to Tom Wolfe. I want to follow up on the topic of language evolution that I took up in my previous newsletter about how the word “satisfying” has taken on a new meaning among many of today’s kids.
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