At one time I would have been appalled by the overuse of "like" and the fact that younger people tend to go up at the end of sentences.
Then I realised that speech and language are always changing! You have only to observe how much speech has changed in the last 100 years. I expect if we heard speech from 500 years ago we would struggle to understand it.
And to think how languages have evolved in the last 1000-2000 years! No, we have to accept that speech and language will be forever changing.
17 Jan 2020
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In one way they speak the old dutch language in south africa. It's called afrikaans. The language contains words we as native dutch have almost forgotten but can be found in old text books from centuries ago. The interesting thing though is that we still understand each other. I have had QSOs with african stations that spoke in their african dutch and I in "normal" dutch. We had no trouble at all to understand although you have to think with some of the old words...and they probabely had to think the other way around. 73, Bas
The same is happening in Norway. The teenagers are using "slang" a lot.
Instead of saying "Church" they say "Sjurch" and instead of "Change" they say "Sjange" so on.
73's Jan LA3EQ
ps: 474.2kHz WSPR last night...I copied you with 18 decodes on the tiny miniwhip antenna but only 8 decodes on the large TX inverted "L" with 3x 25meter top wires". In the daytime the inverted "L" is always best on "EU" stations and the miniWhip is poorer.
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