Millennial becomes unhinged after boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’

[EasyAce]

Varied spellings of words, even within a single document by a single author were not uncommon as late as the 18th Century. And when it comes to usage, the UK, US, and Oz/Kiwis are nations divided by a common language.

Edwin Newman subtitled the first of his two classic books on language, Strictly Speaking, with, Will America Be the Death of English?

I'm betting that if Newman chose to write a third language book he'd have subtitled it, The Internet Will Be the Death of English. (Newman died in 2010.) Were such a thing possible, the Internet could be tried by jury for murdering the King's English. (Not to mention the Queens, the Manhattan's, the Bronx, and the Staten Island's . . . )

[Cyber Liberty]

Edwin Newman subtitled the first of his two classic books on language, Strictly Speaking, with, Will America Be the Death of English?

I'm betting that if Newman chose to write a third language book he'd have subtitled it, The Internet Will Be the Death of English. (Newman died in 2010.) Were such a thing possible, the Internet could be tried by jury for murdering the King's English. (Not to mention the Queens, the Manhattan's, the Bronx, and the Staten Island's . . . )

What that moronic Millennial was pulling in the story takes "death of the Language" to a whole new level.

In a previous life on another Forum I used to encounter these types with deliberately poor spelling and punctuation.  I'd point out to them they are posting among some professional writers, and they would be well advised to knock that shit off before they got run out of the Forum on a rail for rubbishing the pros' craft.  Sometimes they heeded, most times not and they were quickly escorted out.

[berdie]

Edwin Newman subtitled the first of his two classic books on language, Strictly Speaking, with, Will America Be the Death of English?

I'm betting that if Newman chose to write a third language book he'd have subtitled it, The Internet Will Be the Death of English. (Newman died in 2010.) Were such a thing possible, the Internet could be tried by jury for murdering the King's English. (Not to mention the Queens, the Manhattan's, the Bronx, and the Staten Island's . . . )

I was on jury duty with a retired teacher a few years ago. When she taught...she was not allowed to teach spelling at the end of her career.  The kids were allowed to use "text talk" for every day assignments.  She was told that's what they needed in today's world. She retired early.

(of course they didn't teach cursive later in her career either.)