Spelling and Trading

Quote from Arthur Deco:

Veggen, no offense or offence intended to non-native speakers, whatever that might with the world-wide proliferation of our most mongrelized language. I will be picking only on allegedly native speakers, specifically Amuricans. For as long as moderation suffers this thread to exist, I will be ET's Johnson.
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Why should non-native speakers be spared? I am non-native and you can pick on me anytime.
I confess to dumbest error I am aware of.
I confused "drivel" with "dribble".LOL.
 
art deco - I suppose it fits.

You should be congratulated as you may be far more socially conservative than I.

curmudgeon
These damn kids today - they don't know how to write in cursive, they leave out vowels when spell - they type choppy sentences. What wrong with them.

Aaaah they are trying to relay information faster?

curmudgeon
Why they hell would someone leave out vowels thats no way to communicate its destroying language.
 
Jemmy, you be habbin in mind de need fo' a vowul in dese case?:

"Gimme annuder sht, bartender!"

or

"Last night I picked a cnt somebody lost off the street!"

or

"Dealer, take you hand off that dck!"
 
math is the language underlying the universe
a mathematically inclined person should easily be proficient in the rules of human language
 
Quote from Joe Doaks:

Thanks, Bathrobe. I assume you trade in your lucky one. I always say "You aren't trading furiously enough if your frayed old K-Mart slippers don't stink!"
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Your assumption is correct, the bathrobe is by far the most comfortable I have ever worn. The bathrobe is made of 100% polyester but is woven or brushed in a way that makes it feel like the softest, warmest and most comfortable fabric known to the world.

Chris
 
It's a living language.It bothers the shit out of me to hear or read "different than rather than different from".
All you really need to know how to spell are the words in Boolean algebra.
Always had difficulty spelling. Started sight reading then changed to a school that used phonics in the 4'th grade. Very difficult with an abstract learning disability.
Back in ancient times you had to figure how to learn on your own. I was in college before I figured it out.
 
Quote from Arthur Deco:

As a language purist and somewhat of an historian, I am keenly aware these days of the age-old correlation between the deterioration of spelling standards and the decline of society. When the public at large no longer thinks it necessary to spell correctly, they seem no longer to care to accomplish anything else properly, either.

ET is society writ small. Often I wonder "How can an idiot who cannot even manage something as simple as spelling imagine that he can trade?" I know this is an elitist attitude, but I can't help it. I am old and set in my ways. The curse of a classical education wherein most of what you learn is ancient.

So I am going to vent my spleen in this thread. For starters, today, we have:

"explination".

One supposes this person says "Let me expline something to you."
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"a" historian, not "an" sir language purist
 
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