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Myr: Don't know
But it has found its way as a verb into New Words and Senses of Webster's New Explorer Encyclopedic Dictionary
By a process of what I call "smearing," it will soon come to mean the use of any search engine, and eventually accessing the Internet for any purpose whatever
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Language will continue to evolve while people live who speak it. As do manners. But I still appreciate seeing someone with what I consider good manners stand up to let my 82 year old mother sit down on the bus.
and if we like totally abandon all rulz we like you know get just the like the total blech and like feeble crapola and yada and stuff
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and if we like totally abandon all rulz we like you know get just the like the total blech and like feeble crapola and yada and stuff
I know exactly what you mean.
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This thread has made me some moolah! I received an email from http://www.write-better-english.com asking for it to be added to my list of links. After enjoying the author's blog on style poitns, I agreed and signed up to the forums. My first post was the one I made to start this thread, and now it's won me $100AUD. So thanks, prescriptivists, for throwing some coin my way.
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Ahem.
"This site is a FREE resource for anyone who wants to improve their written English ..."
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Ahem.
"This site is a FREE resource for anyone who wants to improve their written English ..."
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Isn't it someone you know, who lives not too far from you, who is often pointing out the long history that "they/their" have as 3rd person singular gender neutral pronouns? Some fool or other, I believe?
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Ywis leden neede multiplie,
And graunt mercy unto benyngne God!
If not for such avowtrie,
How clepeth we ye olde iPode?
with deep regret and apologies to Chaucer
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