02 June 2009

WTFXUP?!

I've always been a fan of the English language. I like to look up new words and learn the meanings of them. I also love editing people's writing.

Apparently, that is not a love that all people have. Today there is a prevalence of text-speak. It has grown so much that I actually have students turn in work with some of the words written as though they are text-messaging a friend.

It doesn't stop with the children, though.

If you are looking for a new church, the one behind my house always seems to have a lot of people. And they just got one of those electric signs that has words moving across it.

The sign welcomes people to their "santuary."

I guess that might be a room adjacent to their sanctuary - maybe where the choir practices before they come out and sing to the congregation.

3 comments:

  1. Sigh...

    Doesn't it seem that more and more people don't know proper spelling or grammar?

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  2. Yes. I think with the younger people it stems to the concept of something along the lines of free spelling. For awhile elementary teachers wouldn't correct spelling - they told kids to spell the way they thought the word was supposed to be spelled.

    That really works, right?

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  3. lol! i thought i was the only one who would mentally edit or correct church marquees or signs. funny stuff...

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