Chelsea Hotel No. 2

you were famous; your heart was a legend

1. Dragon Horse 12.13.07 / 1pm

   Get with the times.

   Language changes. Shakespeare not only could not understand what you were saying but I’m sure he would think it sound barbaric, base, low class, etc.

   Obviously we don’t speak like him anymore.

   One thing I do know, from my minor study of language, is the older a language is the more it tends to simplify and rely on nuance over grammar.

   Almost all the worlds older languages have much less grammar and all the languages that exist today tend to have less grammar than their mother tongue.

   Compare Latin grammar to Spanish or Italian. Compare Old Church Slavonic to Russian or Sanskrit to Hindi. The same is true of Chinese. Cantonese is more ancestral to the original Chinese tongue than Mandarin and low and behold, it has a more complex grammar and is even more tonal.

   “My Bad” is simple and good.
2. K 12.13.07 / 3pm

   Only you would ask me to sit down and compare Old Church Slavonic to Russian.

   I’m just saying…it’s teenage (or Gen X at the most) slang and it doesn’t belong in a business meeting, especially when everyone in the room (me excluded) is at least 40 years old. It just sounds ridiculous.

   Now…when today’s teenagers start taking over the boardrooms of the world , they can say whatever they want to however they want to. I’m all for language evolving, but until then I want slang kept out of my business meetings.

   And you damn kids — get off my lawn!!!
3. Dragon Horse 12.13.07 / 6pm

   haha…

   He is just trying to sound “hip”…one day Richard will go through that phase when he is older…well maybe not Richard, but you know.

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