'When I use a word,' Humpty O'Bumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Read Shakespeare.
I’m pinging this column to the wordsmiths at Word for the Day.
Yep, we see teens txt msg, OMG, LOL.
It’s not just young people though. You see people of all ages texting and e-mailing and abbreviating words and thoughts because of communicating in that manner.
Verbal tics that are really starting to annoy me:
- Beginning every response with “So...”
- Beginning an answer to a question with “Well, I mean...”
- Use of the present tense instead of the past tense, e.g.: “I’m down at the store last night, and this guy comes in...” This seems to be the rule not the exception at Fox News these days, FWIW.
Gravel is be in chicken feed for a reason and it is not to give the chicken, "the illusion of solidity".
'When I use a word,' Humpty O'Bumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
So it makes sense, dumbing down the schools and thus the general population fits right in to an agenda. Twist the language around where hot is cool and it's good to be bad. Have politicians speak in clichés such as fairness and equality and eventually you turn the citizens into a bunch of farm animals. Animal farm, get it?
The error that bugs me the most right now is the mis-use and mis-placement of objective and subjective forms of pronouns: for example, “Me and her are....”
^ The future of English, unfortunately
Rappers seem to only have about 50 words in their vocabulary and 48 of them are obscene.
OMG! WTF? (smh)
Not new, but Minnesotans have a habit of saying borrowed when they mean lent. As in “He borrowed me some money”.
We’ve replaced it with Newspeak (under the name “political correctness.”)
Amazing article. Actually, incredible. Or even unbelievab;e.
Most teen communication is for - well, let’s face it - finding dates. When I was growing up ‘the mail’ only came around once a day. I remember the long hours between those deliveries and my habit of getting out paper stationery to write long notes and letters - with actual words.
With smart phones and the InterWeb, quick-clipped exchanges, not colorful prose, is the new standard, in sorting through prospective dates / future mates. And, as many as possible, both to find the “best” person suited to you, and to attract the best mate as well.
Not attempting to defend these new practices, just explaining them.