The more I read about linguistic evolution the more it seems like English is slowly getting more regular and boring over time as we lose some of our cool archaisms and irregulars. The internet and everything that that’s doing to language is changing that somewhat, but could we as a society also just like… Decide to bring back some of the more interesting things. Could we all just as a culture decide to bring back the PIE dual number, or de-regularize some verbs? I wanna have holpen some friendo to milk some kine. Lol
May I add that Yeet/Yote/Yoten is a powerful move in the right direction.
Further clarification:
- I yeet the can.
- He yeets the can.
- I yote the can last Tuesday.
- We all have yoten a can at one point or another.