It's fantastic to see such video! Thanks a lot! By the way, have you checked Arthur Machen: Collected Fiction ? It would be great to see review on those editions.
A tiny query completely aside from the main subject and the point of this: When have we, as a culture, started to use phrases like "more rare" rather than the term "rarer"? The tendency to add "more" (such as "more fast" rather than "faster" etc) seems on a major upswing. To me, it has an awkward ring to it. I think saying "it was the best" feels better than saying "more better". ;-7
Language generally evolves slowly and can't usually be pinned down to a point in time. To quote an online source (never to be entirely trusted!) "Rarer is always correct, and in literature and writings, it suffices. For a speech, however, the "more rare" comparative, though technically incorrect, will help you to avoid the awkward consecutive "R" sounds."
Is this not an argument that will ever rage on? Every year the English language moves on. I never quite understand why people get so hung up about it. Where should it have stopped? Maybe we should have stopped with Middle English? Or perhaps we should go further back? Should we not use the words that Shakespeare brought into English? Or Dickens? I often visit a town in Germany, and I see more and more words creeping into daily use there. They even have birthday cards with "Happy Birthday" in English. You use the word "upswing" which didn't come into common usage until the 1920s. No language is not a static, finite thing.
As an American, I bristle at being "corrected" for American usage. Gentlemen, ours is NOT a policed language, regulated by an academy, officiated and curbing. La Real Academia Española, et Académie Français do their work -- languages I speak, as well -- whereas our wild and wooly language is successful and vibrant because usage is all. Foreign words are adopted freely. I HATE how Americans employ adverbs, and our speech is riddled with euphemisms. Pick up any article from the New York Times and see for yourselves. Sentences that end in a preposition, split infinitives, misuse of commas, you name it. But DON'T come at me like a stuffed shirt, pretending you're the last word in how something should be said or written. There is no official way to speak English. There are standards, and those change from country to country.
@@chazmena . I suggest and question, and you overreact. So, I have went to the store and picked up some drinks that are more good than ever I got before . After having had some of those drinks I got to thinking, real serous, that maybe your nuts. But then I thought maybe best to let it lie and just bask in our differences about language/. Sorry I made you so mad. If you want me to apologize let me know. (Btw, when you say "American" can I assume you are talking about the English language and not Spanish, or Mexican or about the nuances of Canadian v. US usage? ...Ok, silly question. I have to assume you are speaking exclusively about English usage. Just teasing.)
Impressive collection.
Thank you for sharing.
It's fantastic to see such video! Thanks a lot!
By the way, have you checked Arthur Machen: Collected Fiction ? It would be great to see review on those editions.
A tiny query completely aside from the main subject and the point of this: When have we, as a culture, started to use phrases like "more rare" rather than the term "rarer"? The tendency to add "more" (such as "more fast" rather than "faster" etc) seems on a major upswing. To me, it has an awkward ring to it. I think saying "it was the best" feels better than saying "more better". ;-7
Language generally evolves slowly and can't usually be pinned down to a point in time. To quote an online source (never to be entirely trusted!) "Rarer is always correct, and in literature and writings, it suffices. For a speech, however, the "more rare" comparative, though technically incorrect, will help you to avoid the awkward consecutive "R" sounds."
Is this not an argument that will ever rage on? Every year the English language moves on.
I never quite understand why people get so hung up about it. Where should it have stopped? Maybe we should have stopped with Middle English? Or perhaps we should go further back?
Should we not use the words that Shakespeare brought into English? Or Dickens?
I often visit a town in Germany, and I see more and more words creeping into daily use there. They even have birthday cards with "Happy Birthday" in English.
You use the word "upswing" which didn't come into common usage until the 1920s.
No language is not a static, finite thing.
Hey RSEFX: After I have went through so many youtube videos, I noticed that you are one of the rarerest persons I have ever saw in these comments.
As an American, I bristle at being "corrected" for American usage. Gentlemen, ours is NOT a policed language, regulated by an academy, officiated and curbing. La Real Academia Española, et Académie Français do their work -- languages I speak, as well -- whereas our wild and wooly language is successful and vibrant because usage is all. Foreign words are adopted freely.
I HATE how Americans employ adverbs, and our speech is riddled with euphemisms. Pick up any article from the New York Times and see for yourselves. Sentences that end in a preposition, split infinitives, misuse of commas, you name it.
But DON'T come at me like a stuffed shirt, pretending you're the last word in how something should be said or written. There is no official way to speak English. There are standards, and those change from country to country.
@@chazmena . I suggest and question, and you overreact. So, I have went to the store and picked up some drinks that are more good than ever I got before . After having had some of those drinks I got to thinking, real serous, that maybe your nuts. But then I thought maybe best to let it lie and just bask in our differences about language/. Sorry I made you so mad. If you want me to apologize let me know.
(Btw, when you say "American" can I assume you are talking about the English language and not Spanish, or Mexican or about the nuances of Canadian v. US usage? ...Ok, silly question. I have to assume you are speaking exclusively about English usage. Just teasing.)