'Strong R' in Danger of Disappearing Across North of England, Study Finds

• Words no human would say: These exist only in journalism, academia, think tanks and research papers. When we worked in newspapers, sharp editors called these “journalese”—a dying language, thankfully. discourse (talk) challenge (problem, shitshow)

‘But many people in Delhi still speak Urdu.’ ‘Urdu is an aristocratic language. It was not the language of the working classes. Those who are left - the artisans - speak Karkhana [factory] Urdu. The Urdu of the poets is dead.’

Those who could set the parachuter right, those with valuable traditional and local knowledge, cannot speak the new language of the problem, illiterates in their own land.

The challenges English faced went beyond the technical ones. Colonial rule, which had been one of the chief vehicles for spreading English, was visibly breaking down. Decolonization would ultimately release more than six hundred million people from rule by Britain and the United States. Would they stick with English? Very likely not. Many complaine

It’s also pretty likely that, even if linguists come up with a more precise name for the phenomenon, it will be forever referred to in academic literature and conferences as “known in the wider population as the ‘crispy R.’” All from some TikToks.