Corruption (linguistics)

Language corruption may refer to two similar things:

Change of words, as described above.

Difference from the so-called "purity" of Standard Language . For example, the Split Infinitive has long been disputed as either a corruption or norm of the English Language .

HISTORY

In the past, with unstandardized spelling for English and other languages, a word would be pronounced differently by people who encountered the word in text and not speech. Eventually, such changes could become standardized. A large number of these changes occurred during the 19th century. English is now highly standardized with some dialectal variation.

The mass written communication of the Internet promotes even greater standardization; however, its informal nature often encourages intentional language changes. In online interactive games, chat rooms and other situations, common Typographical Error s and attempts at humor have created a number of new alternate spellings (see '' Leet '').

EXAMPLES

Some commonly known words and phrases which are the result of linguistic corruption include:

"" (from the Spanish verb ''vamos'', which means "Let's go")

" Cajun " (from " Acadian ")

"" (from "spit and image")

"" (from " Parthian Shot ")

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