Truly dumb things I hear my students say:

[Shootist Comitatus]

It is what it is;
Weak sauce;
There ya go;
Now that's what I am talking about.

Smart quote no student has ever heard:

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." - Aristotle

[dncdawg]

The English language is really starting to break down at an exponential rate. I'm glad my kid reads a lot, but I hear the influence other kids have on her casual conversation and it's irritating sometime.

I finally watched the movie Idiocracy a handful of months ago, and I can't stop thinking about how similar society is becoming. That movie came out in 2006, and it's scary how much of the stupidity of that film was an accurate depiction of so many things that are already happening.

[JC-DAWG83]

Every generation lends its own damage to the English language yet English endures.

[FeralDawg]

Every generation lends its own damage to the English language yet English endures.

English has always been a broken bastardized language. Spawn of a million whores.
It's a melting pot of words and the US version is even more bastardized.
But there are correct ways to speak this broken mess.
The difference between the language spoken in Spain and it's offshoot spoken in Portugal
is different because the Portuguese spent far less time under the Muslim conquerors.
So in my mind after years of Spanish migration I expect 200 years from now the language will
be even more different from the mother tongue of British Isles English.

[JC-DAWG83]

Every generation lends its own damage to the English language yet English endures.

English has always been a broken bastardized language. Spawn of a million whores.
It's a melting pot of words and the US version is even more bastardized.
But there are correct ways to speak this broken mess.
The difference between the language spoken in Spain and it's offshoot spoken in Portugal
is different because the Portuguese spent far less time under the Muslim conquerors.
So in my mind after years of Spanish migration I expect 200 years from now the language will
be even more different from the mother tongue of British Isles English.

Yes, and English has approximately 500,000 words compared to around 100,000 in Spanish and 150,000 total in French.  German has around 150,000 words but the combined words in German bring the total closer to 350,000.  English has no problem adopting a word from another language, changing its meaning and making it a common part of the language.

English changes constantly in what words mean as well.  For example; silly used to mean empty and quick was commonly used to describe something being alive i.e. "the quick and the dead".  Where we use "practical", 100 or so years ago the word used in that context was "practicable", a word that is very rarely used today.  Bill Bryson, quite possibly my favorite author, wrote an excellent book called "The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way".  It gives an interesting history of English.

[GriffWoody]

American English is also different for British English. For example, fag in britain is a cigarette…in the U.S., well… Also, fanny in America is the buttocks, in Britain, well….