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[identity profile] ghostinmarble.livejournal.com 2005-01-27 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
This made my inner grammar whore cry when I saw it linked on Metafilter earlier today.

I'm too lazy to link, but M-W also finds "liberry" an acceptable pronunciation of "library" now.

*sob*

The cretins have won.

[identity profile] servermonkey.livejournal.com 2005-01-27 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Wipe them out. All of them.

Didn't catch liberry. I'm Thee-AY-Ter for theater will make its appearance on M-W shortly, if it hasn't already. Sadness.

[identity profile] dodging-fate.livejournal.com 2005-01-27 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
they haven't won until 'converstate' becomes acceptable. Then I'm going to learn Latin and refuse to speak in any other language ;)

[identity profile] servermonkey.livejournal.com 2005-01-28 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
Latin, eh? Ok, we can both learn it.

[identity profile] servermonkey.livejournal.com 2005-01-28 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Strategery isn't in M-W, is it? ;)

[identity profile] ghostinmarble.livejournal.com 2005-01-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
*snerk*

Wouldn't surprise me if it makes it in there one day, but I'll forgive it if it's accompanied by a picture of Will Ferrell.

[identity profile] servermonkey.livejournal.com 2005-01-28 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Down it goes, into my belly. . .

[identity profile] ghostinmarble.livejournal.com 2005-01-29 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Other linguistic pet peeves of mine that have made their way into popular usage:

"Forte" really is pronounced "fort", not "for-TAY".

"Irregardless". URRGG!!!

"Drowneded". Oh my God.

"Blowed up".

"Axe" vs. "ask".

If I had my way, we'd all still be speaking like characters in Shakespearean plays. I watched the delightful "Much Ado About Nothing" the other day for the umpteenth time, and raised my tiny fists to the heavens shouting "My queendom to hold one conversation in this beautiful, lyrical language!!"

Well, I didn't really.

I also lament the death of the semicolon in modern literature, to give one an idea of my linguistic geekery.

[identity profile] dodging-fate.livejournal.com 2005-01-30 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
don't forget

"I could care less"

then WHY are you bothering me about it??????

*sigh*


I'm a poor speller... but my grammar is excellent... it's difficult to be an English Geek with dysgraphia, I swear, lol!

some things just make.me.twitch. Not a good thing when one is an English teacher for emotionally disturbed youth (who primarily come from backgrounds of disadvantage and trailor parks.... wow, the versions of the English laungauge I've heard over the last decade...)
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