In Reply to: re: re: come off it posted by H8 TXT SPK on November 09, 2007 at 16:34:56:

And that would have been the tone used throughout history every time some aspect of the language's common usage changed.

there is no difference at all between the adaptation and the bastardisation of language, other than perhaps the social status/age of the person doing the changing, and the perspective of the listener/reader.