Everyone, EVERYONE! Please mind your manners! Can't we all just have a respectable chat instead of going for eachother's throats like animals? Stop acting so uncouth!
I was only going at the maker of that unmentionable thread's throat out of defence to proper and righteous English. Wow this thread is fun...
The language of our forefathers held a degree of sophistication our current generation is lacking in.
The language of the other century was quite flowery, there is a reason it's changed. You all mistake Shakespearean English for proper English, and indeed seem to uphold it as the very pinnacle of language. Proper English is nothing more than clearly speaking (Or typing if you would prefer). You would do well to take note that even though I am using what can be defined as proper language, I am not reducing myself to a high school report on Elizabethan times. To define that time as the golden age of the English is to forget Democracy and women's' rights, take care not to romanticize the past.
I say that implying that our forefathers involved people such as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, I understand that Shakespeare was a poet and wrote in such a fashion that was not spoken during his time.
Well that is of no concern to me. After all in Tudor times no man spelt every word the same! It was only when King James bible was written was when spelling became standardised.
Anglophiles will always say that they "<3" an English accent, but many of them stumble when they are asked in return "Which English accent?"; that is to say, England has as diverse an array of accents as the Americas have. And in return to Flamestar. Is that why Americans changed every s to a z, then went on to forget the letter u?
No, my good man. We, in the United States, prefer to get the job done without putting in much effort, and, consequently, our language has taken a toll, and now, it is lazy as well. Also, it may have been affected of being about an ocean apart from our father country. (Most probably the latter! *Aristocratic laugh*)