Dear Helen ~

Of course language changes. This is not to say whether it changes for the better or for the worse.

Were I to glibly adopt expressions like "nabe fave", I would do significant damage to my hard-earned reputation as a linguistic curmudgeon.

Father Steve

PS: We pretty much begin every liturgy with the greeting "The Lord be with you." It may be an anachronism in some linguistic neighbourhoods, but it has currency in our own.