Another case of linguistic fingernails-down-the-blackboard

[polaris93]

In Episode 1 of Walking with Dinosaurs, "New Blood," at one point the narrator refers to a "huge herd of plateosaurus!" -- a herd which includes maybe 6 individuals at the most. Six animals does most definitely not constitute a huge herd. It's the animals themselves that are huge, which of course they are. Since when did we stop using adjectives

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[jordan179]

Britain is dying right now -- this is but one of the most trivial manifestations of the process. Oh, and it's also normal linguistic change, but in this case away from logical constructions, mirroring the increasing insanity of Britain's culture.

[polaris93]

Yes, yes, and yes. Lately I've seen news and opinion articles about Britain describing the behavior of younger Brits that are appalling, scary, and disgusting. The thing is, that sort of yahoo-ism is not the sort of behavior you'd once see among, say, Cockneys or other Brits low on the socioeconomic totem-pole -- they had their own rich cultures, and their linguistic eccentricities made sense and entailed a good deal of real wit. Not now. The culture that's evolving there is what you might see today among those who have been locked up in juvenile hall or youth authority for awhile because of whatever misdemeanors or felonies they committed, regardless of their parents' education and socioeconomic status, a devolution of language and other aspects of culture that would have disgusted their austraopithecine ancestors. So far, it hasn't become that bad here. So far.