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Is English Deteriorating ?
Artful Dilettante/Harvey A. Daniels ^
| March 6, 2018
| Artful Dilettante
Posted on 03/06/2018 7:00:56 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary
“Gift” used as a verb.
“Marshall law”.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:04:51 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: huckfillary
Exactly as depicted in the movie Idiocracy.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:04:55 PM PST
by
Spirochete
(GOP: Give Obama Power)
To: huckfillary
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:05:24 PM PST
by
Klemper
(And then... and ONLY then... do they get their only chance to come back into America the legal way.)
To: huckfillary
It has gotten MUCH worse since word processors and “spell check” (LOL).
In the ‘80s, I didn’t see errors in “the media” - papers, mags, anything.
After the boom of PCs and spell check, it seems editors were laid off and no one really checked anything. Since the ‘90s I’ve regularly cringed at the “writing” in those same publications.
Never mind the hastiness exhibited in on-line articles.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:06:17 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: huckfillary
English has been in decline since the Normans took over.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:07:44 PM PST
by
NRx
(A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
To: DuncanWaring
consult used as a noun
invite used as a noun
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:07:57 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: huckfillary
English deteriorating? What up with that?
To: huckfillary
The word ‘me’ used in place of ‘I’! Aaarrgghhhh!
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:08:44 PM PST
by
Exit148
(OH LORD, Your children need you. (Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
To: huckfillary
The more difficult or complex the language, so develops the brain.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:09:04 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: huckfillary
In the history of modern English there is no period in which such victory over thought-in-speech has been so widespread. Amen!
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:09:27 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: huckfillary
Say WHUT? ;-)
Your crazy!
To: huckfillary
I really loath the misuse of the adverb “Anymore”, when what is meant is “These days” or “Up until now”.
Am I the only one who has noticed this trend?
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:10:59 PM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: huckfillary
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:11:54 PM PST
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: huckfillary
I would have missed the last one. And surely some others if you had posted them.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:12:15 PM PST
by
Aliska
To: huckfillary
Biggest one I see is people spelling lose (lose the game) as loose (ie loose pants)
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:12:20 PM PST
by
rb22982
To: the OlLine Rebel
Not to mention misspellings in books. Drives me crazy.
To: huckfillary
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:13:56 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Progressives don't care about quality. Progressives only care about appearances.)
To: huckfillary
Well, let’s analyze, um, I mean, “unpack” that.
To: DuncanWaring
The past tense of “drag” is “dragged”,NOT “drug” which I have heard MANY times,even by educated people.
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posted on
03/06/2018 7:15:37 PM PST
by
Mears
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