Whoo descriptivism
The rules of English can be awkward. We struggle to make do with what we have, continuing to spell "knife" with a "k" and placing our adjectives before the nouns, unlike the wise French who understand that I’d like to know what’s being called "warm and sweaty" before I decide if it’s going to be erotic or not.
He also advocates Spanish-style punctuation marks in front of sentences (after all, you should know the tone before you get to the end, right?) And then, he argues for the return of the interrobang, and an irony mark. All crowning awesomeness…except:
Can you really be the kind of descriptivist iconoclast he wants to be when you’re really only proposing a whole new prescriptive system.
I refuse to take I LUV U seriously. I think that’s why I don’t date teenagers anymore.
Comment by Matty — September 25, 2009 @ 5:43 pm