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@Hoss , your very first post on this site carried a weight that should have told readers you were no damn troll- it was insightful and on point.... we need a load more like you, but we don't need a single one as you describe elsewhere.

I'm a bit disappointed that the good old posters such as Old Scribe, B.G., Vine Street Bomber, and the poster formerly known as "Chuck Green" don't have the time or energy to join us here.  But, I understand folks priorities change over time.

 Teenage girls. Seriously. It's a highly durable and consistent international pattern.

they are highly verbal

Those little ladies, past and present, influence all of our language use in ways that the vast majority of us never notice.

I dunno I've heard language at Cleveland-Pittsburgh games or at the Race Track I've never heard females use

I'm a bit disappointed that the good old posters such as Old Scribe, B.G., Vine Street Bomber, and the poster formerly known as "Chuck Green" don't have the time or energy to join us here.  But, I understand folks priorities change over time.

You must be harkening back to the SI/CNN daze,because I don't recall any of those posters on CFN

CD, there’s something particular to Cincinnati that maybe you can comment on.  I have family in Cincinnati and they do something I’ve never seen anyone else do.  If they don’t quite catch something you said they don’t say, “Excuse me” or “I beg your pardon.”  They cup their hand to their ear and say, “please.”

I always noticed it but thought it was just something they did.  But a few years ago I caught a comedian on TV or somewhere and he had a joke about people in Cincinnati doing that very thing.  I laughed because I immediately thought of my family doing that.  Hell, I even wondered if it was my family he encountered and was joking about.

Did you ever see people do that while living there?

I like this conversation. My wife would like it more. It also applies to changing definitions that grate many people. Merriam-Webster recently gave "Literally" an auxilliary definition of "Figuratively." That one kills people.
But language is just a mutually understood series of symbols whose meaning is primarily born of their frequency of use. So "Literally" being used sufficiently often as "Figuratively" requires that Literally will ultimately mean Figuratively. It's not any more or less stupid than any other aspect of language change. It's all an emotionless and predictable evolutionary process.

I was just listening to morning radio the other day when they brought up "irregardless" claiming it's not a word [which it's not]. But apparently Merriam-Webster has waved the white flag on this one... 
The one that gets me is "begging the question". It clearly does not mean what most people using it thinks it means, but the wrong usage has gotten so common that it's only language pedants that recognize that it's wrong. 

I suspect they change faster than that.  None of us could understand Olde English.

I have "heard" that the British spoke with an "American accent" in 1800, it was they who changed more than we, and that Quebequois is more similar to 1800s French than Parisian French.

German of course has changed massively since 1870.

which american accent? there's quite a few to choose from.
fwiw, i've heard this as well.