Yes, the more notable thing is that, for some reason, the British decided the practice should end.

Yes, that’s a reasonable take.

I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.

What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.

The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.

Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on “correct” grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn’t be stable enough to be usable. There’s no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that’s just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.

I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.

YOU ARE WORSE FOR SAYING OOOF LIKE THAT

but also correct

Some people were born in 1988, also.

Turkey.

Holy shit that guy’s so Polish.

I won’t be getting either, but if I was forced to choose, the PS5.

The box in the bottom right corner literally says “see the world from a different perspective”.

从另一个角度看世界
(cóng lìng yīgè jiǎodù kàn shìjiè)

The quality isn’t quite good enough for me to see the rest but they are highlighting the different projection.

That’s probably 香花 (xiāng huā), “fragrant blossom”. Fitting name, she smells amazing.

It’s 中国 (Zhōngguó).