languages vs dialects


: "P.S. With regard to teaching our schoolkids the grammar our grandparents
learned: even the rules for prescriptive grammar do change over time. I
bet your grandfather's English teacher would tell you one shouldn't use
contractions in business English. I bet your English teacher today
wouldn't. I bet your grandmother and your English teacher would have
different opinions on the use of 'one shouldn't' vs. 'you shouldn't'.

Hmm. You can already see new words forming out of acronyms on the Internet
- BTW, IMHO, YIS, and so on. Won't it be interesting to watch the
development of 'Electronic English'?"