September 30th, 2004
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The great, slow decline of the English language
I really need to start enqueuing these posts written half-dead as drafts. It drives me mad how often I upload an entry with poor grammar (for lack of paying attention and multiple edits). Fortunately I have a paranoid habit of proofing most of my writing three or four times after it’s up, but that only fixes things after the fact. I’m a stickler (with good reason IMHO) on communicating intelligently, and it bothers me when I come across misuse involving the likes of “alot”, “their/there”, and “your/you’re”, which mar the generally pristine surface of the web. Of course the grandaddy of all transgressions committed against the Queen’s English is the atrocious use of the apostrophe, which I’d wager eighty percent of people butcher.
CDs, PCs, 1980s… not CD’s, PC’s, 1980′s… grrr…
It’s also interesting to know that Blogger’s rarely used spell checker does not contain an entry for “blog”.
