Thursday, October 7, 2010

Under new manglement.

I am always amazed at the mangling of English. I'm not one of those punctilious people that believes languages don't adapt and evolve. I accept that. What I don't accept is abject, obfuscating dumbosity.

"Brazilian Spanish."

And then, this sentence from an email: "Thanks for your help as we solution and evolve."

4 comments:

Dave Trott said...

Everyone's got something that irritates them.
I can overlook 'to' and 'too', I can turn a blind eye to 'there' and 'their', but the one that really gets under my skin is 'your' and 'you're'.

KL said...

less or fewer

george tannenbaum said...

Yes, KL.
That drives me mad.

Dave, all of those drive me mad.

The maddest of all is what I get when the word "unique" is modified.

Tore Claesson said...

I keep George constantly mad by my mispellings.