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To: Albion Wilde

You and TTFlyer should spend some time learning words and definitions before you so blithely use them.


28 posted on 07/22/2025 10:32:59 AM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe |,l)
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To: arthurus
You and TTFlyer should spend some time learning words and definitions before you so blithely use them.

In view of my 50-year career in publishing, I'd say you need to develop a sense of humor.

By the way, your outrage at the widespread blurring of language definition is more than half a century behind the times. Prominent recent example: mural to describe a slogan painted on a street. Spellcheck error and definition creep are here to stay until A.I., with all its other pitfalls, starts cleaning up digital language production.

The Dawn of Digital Spell Checking (1959 to 1970s)

...by the mid-1980s developers of popular word-processing packages like WordStar and WordPerfect had incorporated spell checkers...

The Degradation of Language and Why We Should, Such as, Care (2010)

By dismantling its copy desk, The New York Times is making a mistake that’s been made before (2017)

29 posted on 07/22/2025 11:55:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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