Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince
I can't believe this is considered. What's next, we change the language to MSN shortened vernacular?

People finally got so fed up that they made the crappy laiko(popular) form the official language of the state. It basically lowered the whole culture just because of a bunch of thick peasants who couldn't learn to speak properly and liked the bastardized version over the original.
as to point one...maybe, just maybe....life has many surprises up it's sleeve

Language is a form of communication. If it doesn't serve it's purpose of communicating something clearly then it is useless no? And isn't a 'peasant' form of a language just as good at conveying meaning (with context) as a 'proper' one? because it sure as hell works that way in english most of the time