Dear Friends across the World,
What is of most importance is that we are able to communicate, regardless of
rules of grammar or spelling.
When I think of how difficult it would be to be limited to other
languages/dialects, I am very grateful that so many people on all continents
are able
Jean, I very much agree with you.
Actually color/colour was another thing the (electronic) typesetting
people queried because both are in Ed5. It's color in 'J&P Coats Color
Twist' because that's how the label is, it's an old reel of cotton from
America, but all other instances of the word in
This is a fascinating new aspect of language. I also wonder how languages
other than English are reduced to fast text.
I try to avoid 'texting' when a phone call or e-mail will do. However I've
been doing active chats lately with relatives - I don't know what the
accepted term is, but a chat windo
Jane wrote:
I've never thought it was lazy - just a form of shorthand. The symbols in
Pitman and Gregg shorthand could never be useful for text and they took a lot
of learning. Speed writing was condensed words, but still had to be learned
and probably wasn't as condensed as texting. I can see a
In message <9b106f563a794bcc89ad9e16ec0f6...@yourb45be3bb8c>, Jean
Nathan writes
With appalling spelling often coming
from texting (that hasn't made it into my spell checker yet) - never will
understand that - I don't doubt that once us old fogies are gone an entirely
new system of spelling will
Robin wrote:
Not adopt, but accept. Both s and z are now acceptable for words ending in
'ise' - ie your spelling probably wouldn't be marked as wrong if you used z.
Color - no. A lot of us cringe at 'aluminum' and I don't think that will
ever come into general use here. 'Program' is used for
