The great pedantry surrounding irony.
Surely the meaning of a word is what the majority of people understand it to be? If we all found out that a common word that we all use every day was supposed to have an entirely different meaning by dictionary definition, would we all start raging that we hadn't been using it properly, or would we just change the definition?

Language changes. Fast. A few hundred years ago, on this very soil, the grammar rules that you guys insist to be correct would have been preposterous. Spelling would have been different, and many words had different meanings. Don't you realise how many of the words you use in your rants about 'proper' spelling and grammar are fairly recent adaptations? Don't get angry just because you can't keep up.

I guess I consider this an irrational hatred of mine because I'm trying to preach about letting other people just do their thing...
(Dyslexic Pidgeon, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:25, 3 replies)

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A few hundred years ago, hardly anybody could read or write and so spellings were based on what it sounded like, which with different accents and dialects varied from person to person. In the end, as education became more prevalent, grammar and spelling were formally set down. Some people argue that this should be adhered to and nothing should change, some argue that language is evolving, such as one of my kids' teachers at primary school to justify why she never bothered correcting the spelling when it wasn't literacy lesson. Or that providing people understand what you've writen, it doesn't matter if it's spelt wrong.
It's true that language develops over time, but it has a bedrock that is to be built on. I have no problem with that, just with people who try to fuck about with the 'bedrock' because they haven't been educated properly.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:34, closed)

This is fair enough.
But if the message is clear, I believe that's all that really DOES matter. So many people get in a rage and try to make somebody else look and feel like a moron just because they, often accidentally, typed out "your" instead of "you're", when it's clear what context it's being used in. If it's a repeat offender and they begin to mess up the meaning, then perhaps you can politely inform them. But there's no need to be a dick and assume someone hasn't had an education just because of a misplaced or missing apostrophe.
(Dyslexic Pidgeon, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 12:46, closed)

Unless you're only doing it to take the piss out of a thickie
In which case it's perfectly fine.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:02, closed)