Tell me about it.
The street signs (w/ the street name) on my street are spelled *3* different
ways! Goodgawd...

What's to come? I think you and I don't really wanna know.
In principle, one could say formalities don't really matter, it's the
*thought underlying* the grammar, syntax, style, etc that's important.

Which perhaps is the really sobering part, as, well, there is very little
legitimate thought, as conflict-of-interest is essentially a passe notion.
Sometimes, if I detect no vested interest, I get even more suspicious!

Thought is what gets someone/some group ahead of the other suckas.

Our "social thinkers" are media-prepped entertainers who somehow wangled a
PhD along the line, but are little more than the intellectual version of New
Kids on the Block--or Britney.
Pop-Thought?
I think so.

Well, I don't know bout you, but ahm off to fullfil my true assholic
pohtential, be the best asshole I can possibly be.
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll
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Well, ackshooly....

What's NEA??

I think the jury is out on the brains part.... altho, you might be
(eventually) right.
My initial response was that the peeple who started this web-speak stuff
knew formal/purist english very well, and were sort of just playing,
having phonetic fun.
And, a lot of this might be a sort of "phonetic backlash" to the
non-phonetic visissytudes of english--sposedly the second most difficult
language, behind the oriental languages.
I thought "ossum" was hilarious!

But, indeed, there may be a new surfs-up-dewd generation who *don't* know
the difference! Now DAT is an ossum concep.

Many years ago, and maybe still today, there were linguistic efforts to
streamline english, make it phonetic, even remove the vowels from the
written word, etc. Maybe this is coming to pass.

Personally, I find somce abbrev/acronyms pretty neat/economical: iirc,
fwiw, STFU, etc.

"Good english" used to be a kind of filter, sort of separating the haves
from the have-nots, at least in the non-merchant class, via education.
Now, goddamm executives are semi-illiterate. The well-written memo
getting you a promotion is a thing of the past.
And, iffin yer a talented programmer, you can be *totally* illiterate,
just not in C++, and make $250K/yr.

Part and parcel of all this is the hip-hop/rap blight on our cultchuh.
Ackshooly, no longer a contained blight, as I think it has fairly well
metasticized. Most of gangsta rap is bought by suburban white boyz, from
one stat I read. Werd to their muthuhs....

My own Darwinistic Take on all this:
The P4 chip/Internet is now allowing Humanity to become all they were
meant to be/really were all along: self-interested fukn assholes--rude
ones, at that, given web anonymity. Cyberassholes.

More Darwin:
The New WebDate:
Two CyberAssholes w/ webcams, having websex--auto-erotica, of course.
"Afterwards": (web-cammed pillow talk)
Oh, you was great, that was ossumly good for me (altho I might haveta get
a new keyboard), was it good fer you?
Oh yeah, baby. I'd like to have yer child. email me a dollop of
semen...

Werd up.
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll

An outstanding post.

NEA = National Education Association (Teacher's Union) I think.

I learned English from a perfectionist English teacher. I still digressed
into all the speak of the time, and subsequent times.

But, I do know how to form a sentence and spell. I can write an essay,
outline, first draft, final draft.

In the new order, yes, there are new words, acronyms, and blurbs. Been
like that ever since men spoke. The first person who did a shoulder shrug
probably uttered something very similar to "I don't know" but in the
mumbly version.

I just get a little miffed when I drive down the street and see things
wrong. A sign misspelled. Something a business person spent good bucks
on and didn't get their money's worth.

Example - Downtown L.A. - a store that says "Stationary Store". Now, I
know that they meant to say "This is a store for paper and envelopes and
that kind of stuff." But it said (with the A in stationary) "This is a
store that doesn't move".

I have seen countless business vehicles, and many expensive roadside
billboards with misspelled words. I wonder if they got an adjustment in
the bill or if anyone even caught it.

The worst thing is now I find myself saying things to younger people that
my dad and his generation said to me. EEEWWWWWWW ! YUCK! What a
disgusting thing to hear myself say.

So, I will continue to speak a mix of proper English, hip hop, 60's
grooooovy man, and whatever else comes along to convey the message that I
need another beer or an enema.

Acshooelly, it's interesting.

I wonder where we go from here.

Steve