Storm Clarence Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Now what? Will we see a posting style change by some people? Will we see even more initialisms in this forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I will know when things have gone to hell in a handbasket when LOLcat appears in the OED. Please do not say it is there already. /me covers her head Edit: Humm...'hell' did not get bleeped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphiel Galaxy Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 PMSL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Imo, it's a better thread than that of the spam threads that are ubiquitous on the main board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valerie Inshan Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 WTF??? LMAO :smileytongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Petrov Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 These new entries join TMI, IMHO, and BFF which makes me wonder...LOL is much more common an acronym than is BFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphiel Galaxy Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 For Pep YCHJCYAQFTJ :smileyvery-happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphiel Galaxy Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 *Looks down..........wonders if she might risk it for a biscuit* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterCanessa Oh Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 THE OED (ie; not the USA one) and Oxford University have long recognised formulations those of us who were educated (eg; prior to c 1990) would naturally take as mistakes, viz: there are some things, more things and, <-- Oxford comma It takes an Oxford fool to recognize another <-- (US) 'z' Getting a batchelor's degree from Oxford in certain subjects automatically gets you a Master's (says he, MA (Oxon)) The essential truth is that in. for instance, Shakespeare's time there simply were no standards for spelling and punctuation. Apart from popular usage the only sensible work we have is (US) Fowler's. He took a mess and tried to make sense of it but did not, as far as I know, introduce any new rules. he simplu eliminated old, redundant ones. In addition he gave 'standard' spellings to a number of things, cf 'gray', which makes much more sense than 'grey' phonetically and is at least as old in usage. :-( I'm English and I'd love to say whatever we speak is, by definition, better English than foreingers (Init!). Unfortunately Fowler has often given US English a better grounding than we have ourselves. But they'll never be forgiven for 'nite', etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keli Kyrie Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 PEP OMG FYI ON NASDAQ TOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrie Juran Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 PeterCanessa Oh wrote: I'm English and I'd love to say whatever we speak is, by definition, better English than foreingers (Init!). Unfortunately Fowler has often given US English a better grounding than we have ourselves. But they'll never be forgiven for 'nite', etc. "His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was reported by The Times " as complaining to a British Council audience that American English is ‘very corrupting.’ Particularly, he bemoaned the fact that ‘people tend to invent all sorts of nouns and verbs and make words that shouldn’t be.’ "The Prince concluded: ‘We must act now to insure that English – and that, to my way of thinking, means English English – maintains its position as the world language well into the next century." His concern seems to be as much commercial as merely ethnocentrically aesthetic, the English language being one of England’s most popular exports, along with gossip about the escapades of the Royals. The Prince, after all, was only doing his bit to keep the English pecker up." FROM: http://www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/ruining/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterCanessa Oh Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Charles was always a bit strange but I hope he meant "ensure" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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