Originally Posted by
KonaBuyer
I don't agree that the growing use of homophones is efficient (your - you're, defunked - defunct, etc.). I think it is the manifestation of linguistic ignorance and it troubles me. I believe that the linguistic and the conceptual are linked and that a diminution of the former leads to the diminution of the latter.
Henny Penny Apocalyptic Nonsense. That's been a concern for at least 200 years, probably more. I'm not sure we're any less conceptual now than we were then. (Lookey! I used the the 'right' spelling of then and than!)