If being

pedantic is slavish adherence to outdated rules in the face of actual and foregone changed reality then when do we conclude that a change is a foregone conclusion?

Change has always been a foregone conclusion. If English wasn’t changing, tries to stop it.

As you can

imagine, English is pure like a pirate whore. The real problem is that the people who would fight in the Indian army want to destroy English. We don’t borrow words; on occasion, English has chased other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
What are some

good examples of James Nicoll and Richard Thompson.