If you’re fed up with the English language and how its sheer lunacy can drive us all doo-lally, here’s a nifty thought or three.
Who says we can’t write our own new words in English?
English has been around since the fourth century BC. Well, some of its forms have been, anyway
According to Wikipedia … The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon (c. 550–1066 CE). Old English developed from a set of North Sea Germanic dialects originally spoken along the coasts of Frisia, Lower Saxony, Jutland, and Southern Sweden by Germanic tribes known as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.”
So why are we constrained in writing new English words?
Bottom line is, we aren’t. Why should we genuflect to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), relying on them to approve new words? Here are a few from its December 2018 list. Surely we can do better than this? [Read more…]
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