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I always tell people to go back in time 100 years and try talking to people. Try 200 years, or 500, a 1000 years even. It grows increasingly difficult to communicate, and yet the language of today has no specific or definitive genesis.
It is language's inherent nature to evolve and shift to fit the needs and whims of culture in its time. Denying that change or insisting upon a linguistic book of arbitrary rules, is childishly naive, ultimately unproductive, and a fucking massive waste of creativity.
I do agree. Some rules do help to maintain understandability but, with any living language, they must change and evolve. I also just like poking fun at text that ignores simple rules out of laziness or arbitrary visual style choices that harm readability.