You have a point, yes. I don't know why. It's just a big You Are Doing This WRONG feeling, and there are some things which have to be done my way or they are WRONG. Very few things. And I don't often make a big deal of them per number of examples. If I get a hundred emails with crappy SPG I might be snarky about one or two of them. If that happens over a week then that's twice in a week, which seems a lot. Hmm.
There are other things too, but the one I am thinking of is way too complicated to explain.
Crappy spelling etc. does damage my language. Not my language as in the actual words I speak or write - someone's use of 'ur' for 'your' isn't going to infect my brain while I sleep and cause me to wake up thinking in netspeak - but rather in a more general sense. It's that if such things go unchallenged, slowly 'ur mah bestest buddie an i luv u 4eva' will become more and more acceptable and mainstream, and interesting, useful, attractive, beautiful parts of the language will vanish. Already, 'flaunt' and 'flout' which are different words with different meanings, are becoming conflated because people use them wrongly.
All languages evolve, but I'd prefer not to see English evolve into sumth1n lyke di5, y0.
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Date: Friday, 14 November 2003 01:20 pm (UTC)There are other things too, but the one I am thinking of is way too complicated to explain.
Crappy spelling etc. does damage my language. Not my language as in the actual words I speak or write - someone's use of 'ur' for 'your' isn't going to infect my brain while I sleep and cause me to wake up thinking in netspeak - but rather in a more general sense. It's that if such things go unchallenged, slowly 'ur mah bestest buddie an i luv u 4eva' will become more and more acceptable and mainstream, and interesting, useful, attractive, beautiful parts of the language will vanish. Already, 'flaunt' and 'flout' which are different words with different meanings, are becoming conflated because people use them wrongly.
All languages evolve, but I'd prefer not to see English evolve into sumth1n lyke di5, y0.