06-27-2020, 11:14 PM
(06-27-2020, 04:58 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:(06-27-2020, 04:55 PM)Lumenari Wrote: Interchanging the words "lose" and "loose".
Biden is going to loose the election, for instance.
It seems to have gotten worse the last decade or so online.
I give credit to our failing education system.
I only have one thing, and it doesn't really peeve me, but it does catch my attention. That is the word irregardless. I spent half my life having it drilled into my head that there was no such word as irregardless. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the word was misused so much, that is is now accepted, and is even in the online dictionary.
At that point I realized in this brave new world, though there is nothing new under the sun, things will always be changing while they remain the same.
In fairness to the education system, when social media went nuclear, and children spend more time interacting on their cellphones than face to face, the need of abbreviations to keep communication via texting flowing at a productive pace, spelling has morphed into something that destroyed the benefit of spelling and grammar. Hieroglyphics were resurrected and, emojis and emoticons were born.
I must have really pissed off someone really bad in my life, because I sure as hell am living in interesting times.
