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Language has always been a fluid thing, morphing and blending as two langages come into contact. Used to be this would occur as tribes walked around then as ships sailed and then as planes flew. I like to believe that these mixes are good with the caveat that an undelying structure be mainted; that standards are still kept.
But currently, the mediums for language transmission are not physical, it is all electronic and immediate. Take television, the internet and text messaging, mix in all the "normal" languages one can imagine, add in slang languages such as ebonics or chatroom shorthand, toss in a blender and frappe for the last ten years. You end up with the language mess we have. And then toss in to what you are referring as specialized languages that the military, NASA and folks like Boeing create based on ackronyms. My father, sister and brother-in-law all work at Boeing. They all have six-inch thick binders of ackronym definitions. And the contents of all three binders are different. I cannot see how this is a functional way to operate.
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