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i believe with chomskians that language is reinvented in the brains of every new generation and therefore mutates accordingly. there is no canonical language. "butchering" language is a part of life and it's how new languages are born. which is the reason that today we don't speak anglo-saxon, or occitan, or latin, or babylonian, or indo-european.

the prejudice of "good" vs "bad" language is a class prejudice of the educated classes vs. the so-called hoi polloi. still, as a social phenomenon, it requires a measure of convention, and when that convention is left too far behind, either from artistic endeavor or from dysfunction and incompetence, communication breakdowns occur. hence, the media, or certain professions, which require either broad or specialized communication, require a very restricted language.

still, if communication was the only function of language,"bad language" could be denounced as faulty-- however-- language is also a weapon. obscurity can be the equivalent of military fortifications, pitting one generation, or one social class, or one region, against another. furthermore, the majority of language occurs in absolute silence-- it's not spoken-- it is an internal tool that individuals use to sort out their thots.