Tag: language

kingfucko:

gollyplot:

flittering-sylph:

Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne’er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

Why Are Your Fav Abbrevs Totes Legit Hard to Spell?

allthingslinguistic:

I’m on Mental Floss talking about the legit linguistics of abbrevs: 

Perhaps the best part of abbrevs is how they intersect with other slang, like acronyms. Most of the time, you just add an s or a z to the end of the acronym without actually abbreving it at all, as in lols and omgz, but acronyms with w are special. The best known are BTdubs (from “by the way” via BTW), dubsTF (from WTF), and FTdubs (from “for the win” via FTW), but I also found people on Twitter using OMdubs (“on my way” via OMW), BMdubs (BMW, as in the car), and even one guy who uses FWIdubs (“for what it’s worth”).

The “dubs” abbrevs really put the lie to the idea that people abbrev just because it’s easier, since all the w acronyms are actually shorter than their “dubs” versions.

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Why Are Your Fav Abbrevs Totes Legit Hard to Spell?