It’s the kind of thing that you might be pushed to write if each text costs you 30p to send, or you don’t want to take up too much space on a tiny mobile phone screen.

For those who aren’t familiar with lolcats, the book can serve as something of a guide. The Internet Is Changing the English Language. These questions ultimately extend beyond language, and start to raise political questions as well; the use of language by one speaker might be considered as an error, while another speaker might be considered to be using a dialect. The formal, unemotional writing we were all taught in the classroom simply won’t do in places designed for virtual mingling, McCulloch explains. For more than 600 years, English speakers used because as a conjunction meaning “for the reason that,” dutifully following it with a full clause of explanation (or at least the word of).
when u lowkey need to get ur waiter's attention@Lin_Manuel @leslieodomjr @DaveedDiggs @ChrisisSingin pic.twitter.com/6HwxIdZIis, — Hamilton's Squad (@hamiltonssquad) November 19, 2015. There's even a new concept of time - "pre-pone", the opposite of postpone, meaning "to bring something forward". Many of these terms that sprung up and then disappeared less than ten years later have simply become outdated. When people are bilingual – especially when they speak the standard variation of a language and then a dialect, creole or a language that is seen as inferior – there have long been concerns that the second language or dialect needs to be suppressed, or they’ll never learn the first one properly. ; god help me; not too much just chilling how about you? The company contracts with institutions, including the University of

But now you would just write it out: for crying out loud; are you stupid or something? What’s fascinating about this is that the difference between countable and uncountable nouns is a famously tricky aspect of the English language. Take someone in Liverpool, who a hundred years ago might have heard Liverpudlian dialects and standard English, and nothing else. (Thank you Lord – or text you later, depending on context).
Both are deliberately incorrect along different lines, and you can’t be deliberately incorrect unless you already know what the correct formulation is. It also documented new words that were uniquely American such as skunk, opossum, hickory, squash and chowder. Offline: Traffic means you’re going to be late to work and will have to make up the hours, resulting in stress and loss.