Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24120130-20140607191120/@comment-28861328-20140623040814

Artofcreation wrote: If you write a college paper using archaic inflections and submit it to your English professor, you would not get a good score. Of course, archaisms are words in a broad scope, but they are not (valid) words in present Standard English. With that said, not everyone here is a native English speaker, so let's not argue too much over this stuff. It seems like a lot of actual Naruto-related debates (this thread being a perfect example) boil down to iffy semantics, heh.

That paragraph is so full of falsities I don't even know where to begin.

Firstly, I've been in college for three years, going on four, and took many high-level English electives (since I enjoy those classes so much). Haven't met a professor to date that gives a rat's ass about archaic words, and seeing as I came out of three of those classes with a near perfect score, I really don't think its as big a deal as you pretend to make it. A word does not become less valid with age.

A word is a word.

Secondly, we must've gotten very bored in this thread if we are going after people for not using "modern" English. Please try to stay on topic and if someone's choice of words (barring insults, of course) bother you, ignore it. It really isn't that hard.

Thank you.