This is very interesting. I live/work in Mordor (Birmingham) and The Shire (Malvern Hills), so it’s a topic close to my heart.
Us ‘Brummies’ face “Accentism”, whereby the language of Shakespeare’s Sister and heirs is traduced for ‘inappropriate’ diction, vocab, grammar and inflection by the cogno-lingua-normative Norman Tory Whores the South-East who congregate on Grammarly and in the boiler room of Rupert Murdoch’s “The Times of London” to diss 'Peaky Blinders". Much to our amusement. We here in Mercia, erm, don’t give a damn about that and just turn up the bostin sounds of Black Sabbath to 11.
Anyroads, serious gaps in this presentation with regard to mutant language morphs in rap and online (that 4chan code my son uses, etc). I see no reason to accept Language Police of any description. Esperanto was an EpicFAIL! unlike patois and rap. Still, an interesting, albeit rather middle-class take on the whole ‘is language a virus from outer space’ stuff? Maybe it is/was and Chomsky was wrong, it’s not memetic, it’s genetic. I read the amusing hoax that “scientists from Yorkshire” had discovered alien life miles above Sheffield, which had it been true might have helped explain their equally exotic version of “English”.
The Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na’vi stuff is fun, but not half as much fun as the PC language wars of Accentism in the Disunited Kingdom of these Isles of Wonder. Language is always explicitly political, especially the cogno-lingua-normative attempts by grammar police to dictate what is / isn’t proper language, innit. Oh, dear, now I’m going all Mockney. I’ll start talking like Madonna in a minute. LOL!. Etc. [yawns]
I have vision and ADD issues from mTBI. It’s giving me a new take on cognative and linguistic flexibility, where I give scant regard to any ‘feedback’ on my evolving stylistic innovations. I doubt Joyce would have cared what grammar worry-worts thought of Ulysses.
Our world is rapidly morphing, merging cultures, conventions Those languages which have remained outside the Norman Linguistic Imperialism of the last few centuries will be absorbed, but not by PC Grammarly tropes, rather by txt msg techno-lingua-francas as the whole world of homo-stupid sapiens gets jiggy with Opposable Thumbs on iDevices to further the Carnist catastrophe of Speciesism.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Evol/opposablethumb.html
We need a new language beyond Elvish and Eminem to provide an explanatory framework for the decades of simultaneous Singularities and Collapse ahead. Hopefully, someone is working on that right now. I would, but I’m too busy.
With every good wish.
Yours, in Jubilo!
