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Words are, at their very essence, an extensional abstraction layer between thought and reality. The concept of "red" is a concept that derives its power just from you and I knowing and agreeing (for the most part) what red is. If I think this is blue, and 1,000,000 people agree with me, and you're the only one to call it red, you're the one who's wrong. It won't change the physical aspects, but the idea is what associates with the object, not the word. Likewise, get on to World of Warcraft, and 6 out of 10 people will get you if you use that word (try"woot" some time. That's even older). Maybe you can argue about whether it's jargon or vernacular, but it's certainly a word. Just because the OED asshats don't call it a word doesn't mean its not. With the pervasiveness of instant mass communication I foresee more and more of this. Last edited by hogleg; 04-15-2009 at 11:02 AM. |
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Snafu comes to mind .... and the less well known, but always reliable, fubar. As well as the previously mentioned "thru" which is just a phonetic spelling of "through" and yet is making its way into the dictionary. Gasp .... where will it end???? |
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"Thru" is listed in Webster's as a variant spelling of "through". I find that unfortunate, but it has to do with the general, and growing, illiteracy of the American public. Literacy is more than the ability to read at a 5th grade level. It also implies being able to string two words together without hurting yourself. This is becoming very rare. My girlfriend is a professor teaching graduate students, and is horrified by their lack of writing skills. "Texting" spelling represents more than just trying to save a few keystrokes on a phone. If that was all it was, it wouldn't be leaking into undergraduate papers. Instead, texting spelling represents a general inability to communicate using written English. Unless we want an illiterate population, these trends need to be extinguished with extreme prejudice. |
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Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost/Spirit, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. My original sentence was: "Further, the reason that the first person to use it should, if there was a just God in the universe, rot in Hell for all eternity, world without end, amen." My use of the word "was" is probably questionable, but I would contend that the existence of God at the present time is independent as to whether or not there is a Hell in the present time, Hell being contingent only on whether God ever existed. |
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[EDIT: decided I don't want an iron in this fire (not that there's a fire - it's just a turn of phrase)]
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No it has created a new word and concept. Like the typo "filk song" that is now totally accepted as a concept and it appeared long before internet.
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OK .... here's one for you and it's a corker, because it doesn't really stand for anything. It's not an initialism, it's not a word, it's not anything more than a translation from code. A code originally created by Samuel Morse, although this particular code sequence was created by the Germans in 1905. I'm talking about SOS. A better "spelling" of which would be ---...--- Just for your information, the "initialisms" involved in that code translation came well after it was created. And, it was created as such because pretty much any moron could remember it in code. Texting spelling represents small keyboards and for some people a limited number of characters one can send without incurring additional fees. It has become part of the language out of habit. Most of the new words one finds start out as a habitual usage. Thru didn't used to be an "alternative spelling" it became so because people were either illiterate or lazy and didn't want to remember how to type the actual word. Really tough that you find that unfortunate. So, give us some more examples of what you clearly don't understand. I'm interested in hearing them, if only because I need a good chuckle. My mother was an English professr at the university level (before she gave it up to teach elsewhere), but she didn't have a huge stick up her ass. She had the good sense to teach me that English is a living language. If you can't evolve along with the language, it is you and your girlfriend who will become illiterate and unable to communicate. Let me guess, you two don't even allow your participles to dangle in everyday conversation. Last edited by RickyMaveety; 04-19-2009 at 10:53 AM. |
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I'm pretty sure that "thru" was, in fact, the result of one of the many attempts in the US to "rationalize" the spelling of the language, rather than being "slang". I can't find any references to that at present, but I'll try to find one.
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