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Oh sure fine, go ahead. Spell "because" as "cuz"; Spell "why" as just "y"; spell "laugh" as "laf". But don't come crying to me when you've destroyed the english language, and your president is a moron (ZING!), because it'll be too late then.
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I don't care if it's in the dictionary! Masterbation is in the dictionary, but that doesn't make *it* right!
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Just out of curiosity, what do you have against masturbation? I just can't seem to get a hand le on your negative reaction. I will offer my services in an effort to see you thru this negativity.
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[girly voice] B-b-b-but you spelled masturbation wrong!! Boohoohoo![/voice]
I have no problem with small spelling errors, let's not get anal here. "Thru" is an example of pure laziness!
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it gets really funny when people start using the short-hand way of spelling things when they talk. A bunch of the kids at my school actually say not only "omg" and "lol" but "sci" instead of "science" and "abbrev" instead of "abbreviation"
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I saw "IANAL" on another thread. I'm sorry, but I don't know what this could possibly mean. I just keep thinking of that line in Annie Hall: "That's a polite word for what you are."
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Wut r u trying 2 say? That im lazy? U prolly dont no how 2 spel haf as well as i do wen i try 2.
Their r limits to wut u can say an get away with. 4 exampl, saying "Learn how to spell, idiots." and then misspelling mastUrbation is sumthin u culdnt get away with.
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You know English orthography is really messed up when people don't consider "thru" an improvement.
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quote:Thru was on the first list of reformed spellings issued by the American Philological Association in 1876 and on the list issued by the National Education Association in 1898, as well as on the lists published by the Simplified Spelling Board in the early 20th century. It was also one of the reformed psellings used by the Chicago Tribune from 1935 to 1975. In the heyday of the reformed spelling movement thru was widely used in newspapers and magazines. . . .
As the organized interest in spelling reform waned, however, the use of thru in publications also shrank . . . .
Thru is a simplified form that did not fight its way into respectable usage from below, like alright, but was imposed from above by educators, reformers, and philologists. It has never been less than standard, but it remains a distant second choice in print. (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage [Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1994], s.v. "Thru.")
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Due to the severely limited space on a prescription label, I will sometimes use "thru" instead of through, but only if space warrants such a disgusting truncation of a pure and innocent word of the English language. Plus, the majority of my patients read thru more easily than through, and might mistake it for though, which only confuses them more, which leads to more medication, which leads to humanity using up all the fossil fuels and the destruction of bowling alleys as we know them.
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quote:Their r limits to wut u can say an get away with. 4 exampl, saying "Learn how to spell, idiots." and then misspelling mastUrbation is sumthin u culdnt get away with.
Wouldn't it be "there"? Or is "their" the abbreviation?
In my school, the jocks have a "dec lang", which is their own language in which they shorten words ("eng" is english, for example) and things have names like "Oswald". I still don't know what that one means, though. I'll get back to you on that one.
And agreed, they are idiots. The world's just full of them these days...
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