Thanks for the reply, I genuinely enjoyed reading it and seeing the perspective of someone more educated in language than I. Yes, I do expect better of all media as they should be upholding a better formal standard. Why? I guess I don’t really know, maybe that’s another of my old fashioned expectations.
Yes I appreciate that language evolves but for me “cringe” and other modernisms aren’t exciting, it’s another step in dumbing down that erodes the cardinality of conveyed meanings.
It’s like being taught to drive and then saying “fuck it, I’ll ignore all of those rules and just do what I want because that’s the modern way”. And yes, those fuckers exist too.
It’s like not closing drawers, or not tidying up after yourself. It’s not cool new evolution, it’s just lazy self-centredness.
Thanks for the reply, I genuinely enjoyed reading it and seeing the perspective of someone more educated in language than I. Yes, I do expect better of all media as they should be upholding a better formal standard. Why? I guess I don’t really know, maybe that’s another of my old fashioned expectations.
Yes I appreciate that language evolves but for me “cringe” and other modernisms aren’t exciting, it’s another step in dumbing down that erodes the cardinality of conveyed meanings.
It’s like being taught to drive and then saying “fuck it, I’ll ignore all of those rules and just do what I want because that’s the modern way”. And yes, those fuckers exist too.
It’s like not closing drawers, or not tidying up after yourself. It’s not cool new evolution, it’s just lazy self-centredness.
/old man rant. Get off my lawn.