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Date: 2010-10-27 06:59 pm (UTC)There's certainly a different between the formal rules of a language and the way that it's actually spoken and written. Learning a language in school (at least when I was at school) you were taught to speak in a formal way that natives generally didn't. It didn't mean that this wasn't the right way to construct a sentence in that language, but it also didn't mean that people who did it in a less formal way were wrong. The way you should technically use English hasn't changed. The way a lot of people do use it is different. Both sides are right, and Stephen Fry is basically a bit of a smug hypocrite given his jumping in feet first to some similar debates that he has no relevance to.
In a previous version of windows, I can't remember which, if you chose to hide file extensions then trying to add a file extension wouldn't actually replace the hidden one, but would just rename your file to something like "file.txt.doc" which certainly is silly.
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Date: 2010-10-27 07:56 pm (UTC)The way you should technically use English hasn't changed.
Um, what? Of course it's changed over time. I'm not sure what you mean here.