I have never heard/ read that before!!!
I've seen my fair share of poor writing and grammar too.
It appears the youth of today are becoming increasingly illiterate as the years pass.... ![]()
The misuse of 'to' and 'too'...
Generally have found most can distinguish two (number) vs. to/too (but incorrect use).
When people use the word ‘literally’ to add emphasis but they don’t mean anything literal at all.
It was blowing 30knots, literally all day! Arrghh!!
'to be honest'
So, am I to take it that anything that you say which is not prefaced by 'to be honest' is a lie?
Nothing wrong with a text message.. it's obviously different to a voice message, or a video message.. 'text' or 'txt' is much shorter (syllablically) than SMS.
Which reminds me of two more defacto words/phrases that get on my nerve:
OMG and LOL. Both completely overused meaningless wastes of space.
Sometimes I have to laugh when people get carried away with the "F" word. (that which censorship will not allow.) It adds nothing, but says a lot!
Knew-queue-lar
or even worse: Knew-queue-le-are
I can handle different pronunciations, and shifting the emphasis to a different syllable like toe-mate-o / toe-mart-o, but adding in extra syllables?
It's New-clear. Why make it more complicated?
When general conversation includes management double speak and jibber terms like;
Touch base, drill down, takeaway from this conversation, pro-active, communication tools, at the end of the day, process driven, positive outcomes, deliverables, blah blah blah...
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When people just drop TLAs into a sentence, expecting everyone to know what they stand for.
(TLA = Three Letter Acronymn)
"Correctedness"
a classic Kevin Rudd mangling of the language.
there is a whole list of cliches by Kev the Robot, he just seems to spew them out automatically.
"working families" is a classic, if he hasn't used that 5,000 times ....