WORD STUFF

Wordle

I sweated out today's solution, it's a tough one, but after a loooong time it popped into my head, and I was able to keep my score.

The Future of English

Professor John McWhorter predicts that in the future English will dominate all other languages and will be the lingua franca for all human correspondence, beating out Mandarin.

He cites the inventiveness of English speakers who use emoji's, anagrams, abbreviations, and rap lyrics to expand (and change) English. Some examples:

GF = Girlfriend

CWOT = Complete waste of time

BFF = Big Friend Forever (?)

OMG = Oh My God!

IMHO = In my humble opinion (I like that one)

BTW = By the way

C U L 8 R - See you later

((BTW - even other countries are trying to emulate us. For instance:

K7 in French for cassette

K pronounced ka

7 is pronounced set for sept

N8 in German for NACHT (night)

N pronounced en

8  pronounced acht ))

RHYME

If you have a couple of hours to kill, and you have opinions about RAP, you might like to read Adam Gopnik's New Yorker article in the May 30,2033 issue entitled "The End of the Line or It's long past Time to Reassess Rhyme."

Besides Adam's views on the different kinds of rhyme, he reviews Daniel Levin Becker's new book "What's Good."  

Mr. Becker says: "RAP serves, consistently, contagiously, sometimes in spite of its own claims to the contrary, as a delivery mechanism for the most exhilarating and crafty and inspiring use of language in contemporary American culture"

What do you think?

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