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[Tall T]

Nice to see. For years, I felt like I might be the only person online who spelled it right Same syndrome on the forum I used to manage, too. To be fair, it IS from a foreign language, and I don't think most people realize that. So they've Americanized (or Canadianized) the spelling. You have to read it printed correctly to get it. If you only hear people say it, wahlah is the almost inevitable conclusion. And I often wonder how many people, upon reading it spelled right for the first time, think to themselves "idiot!"

It seems like one of those somebody's-got-to-do-it, because even their teachers can't be correcting all the dumbing-down. If they were you wouldn't see dopey grammar like:
"YOUR welcome"

The millennials don't even now what a contraction is anymore, so now they have actually nullified what a contraction was even created to do by adding another letter in place of the apostrophe!
They say coudEnt, shoudEnt, didEnt

The non-enunciating of the letter T and substituting a little coughing sound drives me nuts.
His name is Bar (cough) on. that's supposed to be Barton. T's are left off the ends of words now.
Wa (coughing sound) is now supposed to be "WHAT"
I suppose they adopted that one from the British and now many people you'd think would know better, mimic it. Even if the T is soft, if your tongue doesn't touch the roof of your mouth you're blowing it.

Eccetera . . . instead of Etcetera (Latin word)
People using I promise like it means, "I swear". or "I assure you", when I promise" is intended to refer to something in the future.
"No, I'm telling you the truth, I promise."

No one seems to know that adverbs have "ly" on the end either.
Example, "I'm taking you serious."
How did the exam go? "It went incredible.

"We have to speak about it very LOUD"
White House Secretary

They don't even teach kids how to hold their pencils anymore and actually discourage cursive writing so now you can tell a Millennial by the thumb awkwardly wrapped around the pen. They even have to cock their heads to the left to see what they're writing because their thumb is obscuring it so that they can't "go with the flow" as they say. Most all smooth flow is lost because forming the letters is coming only from the limited wrist and forearm and so all the dexterity of the first finger and thumb, requisite to gracefully flowing writing is lost.

Most of the old expressions have been butchered as well.
things like "on death's door" instead of AT
I'm bored OF it, instead of WITH.



Everyone is now saying "excited to" instead of "excited ABOUT" (something in the future)
“I’m so excited to get started on the orchard”
so present and future tense have taken a hit as well.

The thing is, kids picking up on others botching English, adopt the dopey usage for themselves
and before long it hardens into custom.

No wonder some college professors have to even take remedial reading.

I have enough material for a book on the Dumbing Down of the English Language (or the educational system) and just might write one.

Drive SAFE
T

 

[showcrop]

Yes, our language is changing right before our very eyes (and ears). You bring up et cetera. The incorrect abbreviation that we nearly always see is ect, when the correct is etc. Very common now is "off of" when what everyone means to say is "off from".

 

[Non-farmer]

Yes, our language is changing right before our very eyes (and ears). You bring up et cetera. The incorrect abbreviation that we nearly always see is ect, when the correct is etc. Very common now is "off of" when what everyone means to say is "off from".

Of all the things you guys mentioned, I think "ect" is the one that bugs me the most.

I often think of this quote from bash.org (which is sadly gone now - thank goodness for archive.org)

i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

 

[Tall T]

Yes, our language is changing right before our very eyes (and ears). You bring up et cetera. The incorrect abbreviation that we nearly always see is ect, when the correct is etc. Very common now is "off of" when what everyone means to say is "off from".

I think what they've done is confuse the beginning of 'etcetera' with word 'eccentric.'

but you've got me confused with "off from" or 'off of"
Can you give a couple of sentences to illustrate ?

T

 

[Tall T]

Of all the things you guys mentioned, I think "ect" is the one that bugs me the most.

I often think of this quote from bash.org (which is sadly gone now - thank goodness for archive.org)

I sometimes for a laugh when ordering coffee ask the server what that coffee is called that's very strong.
When she answers EXpresso, I ask her to spell it.
The look on her face can be priceless when she stumbles realizing that there is no X in ESPRESSO.

Stab in the face is kind of graphically gross; how about punch?

T

 

[showcrop]

I think what they've done is confuse the beginning of 'etcetera' with word 'eccentric.'

but you've got me confused with "off from" or 'off of"
Can you give a couple of sentences to illustrate ?

T

I bought a truck from that guy, or, I bought a truck off of that guy.