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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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"The English language is constantly evolving"
Specifically, when used to excuse bad grammar and poor spelling. Yes, we're constantly coming up with neologisms and new ways of expressing concepts. Yes, we use drastically different sentence structure than we did a century ago. Writing "your" instead of "you're", "loose" instead of "lose", "it's" instead of "its" (or vice versa) etc. isn't evidence of the language evolving, it's evidence of a lack of understanding of the basics.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:18, 3 replies)
I heartily agree with this message

(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:47, closed)
ditto.

(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:27, closed)
or maybe
it demonstrates a fluency and comfortableness with the written language which allows one to translate verbalised thought to text without stopping to think about every little word.

I suspect the frequency of these usages is roughly U shaped in its distribution in relation to literacy.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:28, closed)

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