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18th century grammar nerds literally shitting and pissing and crying right now
I sometimes wish english had not drifted so far, and not been orwellianised so much, such that we'd still be able to read 18th century political philosophers, without pains.
... I suppose now we could get an LLM to rewrite (e.g.) Bakunin[1] in bro-speak, cat-speak, and memes.
[1: Oops! No, Bakunin's 19th century[2]. William Godwin then.] [2: That's worse, that already 19th century's already getting unreadable. ... How long until Orwell's 1984's unreadable?]