"More Evolution of The Language" Topic

Among other things, "'reign' in" has become acceptable with the appropriate "'rein' in".

Will this spelling mean that despots must me stopped?

A few computer discussion abbreviations are going to become acceptable, as well, such as l33t for "elite".

I suppose all generations who saw the meaning of words they grew up with change complained about the denegration of the language.

I suppose mankind will survive somehow.

JW

Will this spelling mean that despots must me stopped?

I suppose all generations who saw the meaning of words they grew up with change complained about the denegration of the language.

There's always a delicious schadenfreude when a post complaining about spelinge and incorrect usage contains a typo and incorrect usage. Don't you think?

Do you mean in the sense of
"another Clinton might reign in the next few years unless steps are taken to rein in the incumbent""

There's always a delicious schadenfreude when a post complaining about spelinge and incorrect usage contains a typo and incorrect usage. Don't you think?

That is exactly why I have retired as the TMP Speling and Grammer Facscist™ (triple sic).

"Don't you think?"

Occasionally, when it can't be helped but it makes my head hurt so I try to avoid it.

When I do the humor of people pointing out mistakes which aren't there is sometimes apparent.

Though ‘degeneration' was perhaps meant ‘denigration' meaning ‘causing a figurative black spot' is accepted by the O.E.D, (blessed be it's mighty name).

The example supplied by that inestimable tome; "Let this be the denigration and such a spot in the Turkish religion as no Fuller's soap can wash out", is very close to the intent of the post by my reading.

"l33t" doesn't so much replace the word "elite" in general use as function as the name of that particular dialect of online English. That it is also an adjective within the dialect named after it is somehow fitting.

For some reason I'm reminded of the Nero Wolfe scene where he talks with a client while dismembering and burning a dictionary, which has made unacceptable changes to the English language in its latest edition…

"I'm reminded of the Nero Wolfe scene…"

Ah, it's always the converts who show the most zeal. Wolfe was supposed to be a Montenegrin who learned English in his twenties was he not?

I don't mind changes provided they are improvements or at worst neutral stylistic drift. Improvements add power, range or fine discrimination to the language. What I don't approve is changes which reduce the language, these seldom take the form of new words, far more often they are shifts and other alterations in the meaning of old ones.

the WORST is so-and-so has "gone missing.

Give me a break. Wile so-and-so has "gone crazy", you ARE missing.

I especially despise 'anchors away', and the use of 'criteria' and 'phenomena' as singulars.

But I'm a crabby bastard.
-Kle.

"Reign in" is about as acceptable as "tow the line".

"I especially despise 'anchors away', and the use of 'criteria' and 'phenomena' as singulars."

I don't like "forums." It should be "fora" as it's aword from the Latin Language behaving as those two above derived from Greek.

I came across this one in a discussion about the the recent Nritish access legislation know as "the right to roam." Access to an area of moorland or mountain is monitored by an "Access Forum"

This guy kept saying "Forums", so I corrected him.

He got edgy. "I'm English," he said, "I don't speak Latin"

"Oh," I replied, "I'd have thought that if you wanted the 'right to roam', you'd speak as the Roamans"

I've gotte irritated recently by reading some news articles that miss articles [a, an, the]! What the hell is going on with reporters? Don't they teach proper writing in journalism school or is it like everywhere else in THE world that ignores the rules of proper English grammar?