I Hear English Changing

BeefStu said:
My Grandfather was a signalman during WW1. From what little talking he did about it with family members, he had a bad time of it and suffered from PTSD after he got home even though his only physical injury through the whole war was from playing baseball. He saw a lot of death. Though they would never have called it PTSD back then, I don't know what else anyone would call it. I managed to get a copy of his complete military records which made for interesting reading. I also inherited his gold watch that the Township gave him when he came home He was one of the best men I have ever known and I was fortunate to be able to spend a lot of time with him when I was young.
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How/where did you get records from that era?
If any exist for my grandfather, I'd like to see them.. but I was told long ago most old military records were lost in a fire where they were stored.
All I know is he served during WW1, but I have no other information.
(I never had the chance to know him, as he passed away before I was born.)
 
Ronni said:
More and more, nouns are being used as verbs with the addition of an extra letter or two. It’s called verbing.

For example: Instead of putting food on a plate, the food is plated. Google used to be a noun only. But now it’s a verb “I’m going to google it.” Text is another one. The noun “text” has been verbed to become an action word..”I’ll text you when I’m on the way. “

Some scholars are concerned that verbing is ruining the English language. I don’t agree. Language has always been fluid, is constantly evolving, more words and phrases are added to dictionaries every year, and thereby become official.

Verbing creates more efficiency and speed, sometimes replacing most of a sentence with less verbiage. “”I’ll send you a friend request” becomes “I’ll friend you”.

It also modernizes our language, keeping it relevant with current societal practice, and honestly it’s just fun!
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Also in today's world where everything including conversations are so fast paced it was bound to change. Most of it I get but some of it makes no sense to me.

*edited typo
 
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