Back in the old days, when English was still in its infancy, the literate world looked down upon the English language. Not only because everyone had a hard-on for Latin, but because, of all the vernacular languages in circulation, English was considered a base language (and i do mean “base” in the archaic form, which is to say lowly and contemptible). After all, it was an amalgamation of Germanic, French, and Welsh, and had no standardized rules of spelling or pronunciation. Anyone could say any word in English however they wanted.

Several hundred years later and here we are now. We turn our noses up at the Middle Ages in scorn, acting as though we’re “so” much more enlightened and generally “better” than they were.

And yet English has gone full circle back to the form of yesteryear. True, we’re not speaking in Middle English (unfortunately), but the centuries of grammar rules and standardizations that were brought into the English language, which had been championed by the British Empire and the United States until it has become the “common language” of the world, are being thrown out the door. People misspell, mispronounce, and generally say words however they damn well please, and woe be you if you dare correct them! At this point, the way orc-minded, ignorant, and barely literate troglodytes misuse the word, “nazi” has lost all of its effect, the same way liberals have made “fascist” lose its effect through overuse and misapplication.