Wednesday, May 20, 2009

#46

This is the best example of how Facebook is aiding in the destruction the English language (along with its friends Twitter and text messages. LOL.) I don't think I need to point out that Lauren included the "is" herself, going out of her way to make the sentence make zero sense. So I won't. But I just did.
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8 comments:

  1. KateMay 20, 2009 at 5:22 PM

    So....texting & twitter & facbeook are destroying the English language .... but you used the wrong "it's"?

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  2. peoplewhoblogMay 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM

    Well Kate, It's just another example of the destruction. Mr. Walter is just as guilty of it as the rest of us, but he's telling on people. So "it's" sort of hypocritical and maybe detrimental to "its" cause, but I think this site does a public service, even if "it's" got some grammar issues.

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  3. WalterMay 21, 2009 at 1:36 AM

    Let's just blame it on the recession and have you forgive me?

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  4. LadyGaGaMay 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    i think you're missing the point. this status update is far messier than someone using the wrong form of "its" -- something that people have been fucking up for years, way before Twitter was invented.

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  5. OldPandaDayzMay 21, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    Clearly Kate has no regard for the English language either considering the massive amount of "....." (see Walter's previous blog post regarding this phenomenon); let alone her own inability to determine the proper usage of the conjunction "it's" or the pronoun "its". Kate, please kindly refer to all those books you never used in college before criticizing others.

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  6. KateMay 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    I was just teasing, gang, by pointing out the irony in the situation, although Peoplewhoblog really nailed it on the head. I stand corrected. On the other hand, I don't think that twitter/facbeook/texting etc is destroying the English language - it's casual conversation. I don't write for work the way I send a text, just like when I was a kid I never wrote a school paper that sounded like a hallway-passed note to a friend. No big deal, though. And, as one who holds an MFA in writing and who works as an editor, I would be curious to know what you mean about my inability to determine the proper usage of it's or it's?

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  7. AnonymousMay 22, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    I think someone missed a bit of data on this post. While it is still a weird way of posting, it shows that she posted from a mobile source. Now if that mobile source was the facebook iphone app, it includes the "is" automatically still. Sure, she could have backspaced and deleted it, but it is far from adding it in herself.

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  8. PhillipJune 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM

    Dear Kate,
    I'm not surprised that you are able to seperate work and texting, on account of your MFA in writing...
    However any highschool or elementary school teacher will tell you that this twitter/facebook/texting language is seeping into students' papers, tests, and everyday speak. So perhaps its possible that this could be an issue for someone who is not you (ego-centric?).
    Love, Phillip.

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