bad grammar on the internet

i_was_in_shroom_land · Oct 26, 2012

lol.

Gyro Gearloose · Oct 26, 2012

Hello,

i_was_in_shroom_land said:

lol.
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that does not make sense .

Regards
Gyro

scratcho · Oct 26, 2012

It's good to be a cunning linguist

jo_k_er_man · Oct 26, 2012

if everyone "lol'd" as much as they said they did.. we'd just have a bunch of dumb fuckers walking around town.. while eating your food at a restaurant.. while sitting in the library.. while taking a shit in the stall of a walmart... while getting blown at your local highway "rest area".. going "HAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA!" because someone was told their friend's cat was chasing it's tail

what drives me fucking nuts is people who say i "lol'd"

Manservant Hecubus · Oct 26, 2012

it's 'laughing out loud' not 'laughing loudly'
A quiet laugh is still laughing 'out loud' ...from the perspective of one's inner voice, at the very least.

daisymae · Oct 26, 2012

lol'd doesn't bother me, but the use of "your" instead of "you're" drives me crazy.

Fairlight · Oct 26, 2012

Gr8 nite 2nite.

Nyxx · Oct 26, 2012

scratcho said:

It's good to be a cunning linguist
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I think they are great. :sunny:

zombiewolf · Oct 26, 2012

scratcho said:

It's good to be a cunning linguist
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Hey, this is the wrong forum for oral sex

odonII · Oct 26, 2012

ROLLINGALONG said:

no one here has lol'd

some of you l'dol

lol'd translates to ''laugh out louded''

i dont know of any other examples in english where it is ok to hop the apostrophe to a different spot...

it makes no sense
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What the hell are you talking about? Who uses: l'dol?

sbasic2 · Oct 26, 2012

Piaf said:

I think we are allowed to make mistakes here, as English is not our first language.
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Amen! We have a good excuse for grammar and spelling mistakes.

lode · Oct 26, 2012

Proper grammar is mostly a manner of consensus. The old guard is dying, and now text slang will become law, with humans greatest works of poetry published as twilight fan fiction typed up on a series of 140 character limited and dirty posts on twitter.

FlyingFly · Oct 27, 2012

Maelstrom · Oct 27, 2012

I'm a proud grammar nazi

FlyingFly · Oct 27, 2012

I are grammar communist.

pensfan13 · Oct 27, 2012

Phuck them ppl that b tryin 2 yous bad grammer

Gyro Gearloose · Oct 27, 2012

Hello,

FlyingFly said:

I are grammar communist.
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grammar communist? You mean grammar belongs to everyone?

Regards
Gyro

pensfan13 · Oct 27, 2012

Gyro Gearloose said:

Hello,

grammar communist? You mean grammar belongs to everyone?

Regards
Gyro
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Nahhh it mean badd grammer belong 2 noebody

FlyingFly · Oct 27, 2012

Gyro Gearloose said:

Hello,

grammar communist? You mean grammar belongs to everyone?

Regards
Gyro
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Yes, and you can create your own grammar and then it is grammar for everyone.

Manservant Hecubus · Oct 27, 2012

Since I'm pretty sure nobody read this.

You have said that there are a lot of falsehoods uttered about English. What do you mean by that?

There are lots of water cooler myths about the language. One of the things people tend to say is that this is a uniquely sad moment in the history of English – that it’s all going to hell in a handcart. But actually, if you look at the history of the language, people have always been saying things like that. The moment we live in is not uniquely sad. It is simply the moment we are living in and we feel it very profoundly; there is something quite alienating about being caught up in the experience of change.

It may be that the technologies that are available to us in the area of communication are making changes happen more quickly than they did in the past. But the suggestion that the English language is somehow on the way out or is doomed to become less rich is nonsense, and is fuelled by people who have a political agenda for saying that. Most arguments about any language, and certainly about English, are actually arguments about other things like morality, class and political values. Language is something people find easy to address as a subject because everybody else has experience of it. Also, the “problems” of language are easier to address than the problems of society. So it becomes a way of mounting a flank attack on other serious issues.

There are loads of stupid myths about the English language. One of the things you hear, as I touched on a moment ago, is that the Americans are ruining English or that American English is worse. This is just an absurd thing to say. First of all, the things that people most complain about in American usage in many cases actually used to be standard British usage. Plus, one of the reasons that English is such an important world language is because of America’s political and cultural might in the 20th century. In some ways British people have benefited from that. So to sneer at America and American English seems to me to be incredibly short-sighted.
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You have touched on this also, but many people make a link between the usage and teaching of English and moral decline and breakdown in society.

People use complaints about language as a way of addressing delicate issues in an oblique fashion. You look pretty ridiculous – in fact you sound a bit like [historian] David Starkey – if you start saying swingeing things about the changing fabric of modern cultural Britain. But if you talk about the decline of the apostrophe you will immediately have lots of allies. So it’s often a way of dealing obliquely with the way that change makes people feel uncomfortable.

I’m all for people in schools being taught grammar and a concept of how written English ought ideally to be. I think you get taught a set of rules and then you learn to abuse them – that’s part of what linguistic facility is. It’s about going beyond competence and understanding when you can violate conventions. We talk about rules but it really is more sensible to talk about conventions. The point is that these things will change. Language changes. That’s the fundamental fact that language rests upon. It would be really weird if language didn’t change, because people and society change. But there is this persistent desire to embalm language for all eternity. You get that in people, for instance, who say there should be a language academy here [in the UK].
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