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English is weird
Meadomancer:
I saw a comic about this years ago.
Possibly the most abbreviated and bastardized phrase in modern English is "I am going to." Example:
I am going to go to the store.
I'm gonna go to the store
Ommina go to the store.
It only makes sense if you say it out loud, but it'll probably be acceptable in print eventually.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 13 Jun 2018, 09:05 ---Maybe its a regional thing but I see it all the time and it just bothers me. :venonat:
--- End quote ---
I mean, people use "your" when they should say "you're" all the time, wouldn't this just be an example of that?
Morituri:
The apostrophe is oft gotten wrong. So much so that I suppose a future version of English will lack it.
We did pretty much the same thing to all those weird marks a lot of people decorate their vowels with, after all.
LTK:
Did English really ever use those?
pwhodges:
No, never. There was a while that people liked to use the diaeresis, as in coöperate or naïve for instance, but that's pretty much dead I think. The occasional use of an accent in loan words, such as cliché, is about the biggest such intrusion. We've always preferred our pronunciation to be a guessing game, it seems... :evil:
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