The English language is getting dumber

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Complaining about evolving language is about as basic, UMC as you can get.

I took "keyboarding" in HS in 1993. it has existed for ages.

My crotchety ASD father likes to complain about language evaluation - stuff like verbing, and adding an extra word to action verbs (like "swapping out" instead of just saying "swapping" - he things is SOOOOO low class). I think it's a sad way of lording your UMC education over someone who may not have had access to that type of grammar growing up - but is just as, or far more, intelligent and educated -just didn't have the consistent access to grammar. Basically, complaining about grammar is the equivalent of a grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn!!!".

IRL it is a class/education marker, and I'm grateful for that in the workplace. A coworker spouting about ideating and other business school words is one thing, but when they constantly tell us to contact "Bill or I", "Bill or myself" -- tells me everything I need to know about them.

You literally just made my point. Why the hell is a colleague's "class" relevant to you? Their "class" has no bearing on their competence or capacity for doing good work (or, if you're making the same judgment calls in non-work settings, someone's capacity for being a good person).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Complaining about evolving language is about as basic, UMC as you can get.

I took "keyboarding" in HS in 1993. it has existed for ages.

My crotchety ASD father likes to complain about language evaluation - stuff like verbing, and adding an extra word to action verbs (like "swapping out" instead of just saying "swapping" - he things is SOOOOO low class). I think it's a sad way of lording your UMC education over someone who may not have had access to that type of grammar growing up - but is just as, or far more, intelligent and educated -just didn't have the consistent access to grammar. Basically, complaining about grammar is the equivalent of a grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn!!!".

IRL it is a class/education marker, and I'm grateful for that in the workplace. A coworker spouting about ideating and other business school words is one thing, but when they constantly tell us to contact "Bill or I", "Bill or myself" -- tells me everything I need to know about them.

You literally just made my point. Why the hell is a colleague's "class" relevant to you? Their "class" has no bearing on their competence or capacity for doing good work (or, if you're making the same judgment calls in non-work settings, someone's capacity for being a good person).

And why does making a grammar error "tell you everything you need to know about them"?? Because now you know that they grew up lower class so you can turn your nose up at them? You're a seriously bad person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes it s. I keep hearing the word "finna." It makes me cringe.

And “clap back.” There’s already a word for this, called “retort.” Go ahead and use clapback on PopSugar, but I’m starting to see it on news websites.

I would suggest that those websites aren't using the APA style guide. Different organizations have differet standards. Not everything needs to be written at the level of War and Peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Complaining about evolving language is about as basic, UMC as you can get.

I took "keyboarding" in HS in 1993. it has existed for ages.

My crotchety ASD father likes to complain about language evaluation - stuff like verbing, and adding an extra word to action verbs (like "swapping out" instead of just saying "swapping" - he things is SOOOOO low class). I think it's a sad way of lording your UMC education over someone who may not have had access to that type of grammar growing up - but is just as, or far more, intelligent and educated -just didn't have the consistent access to grammar. Basically, complaining about grammar is the equivalent of a grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn!!!".

IRL it is a class/education marker, and I'm grateful for that in the workplace. A coworker spouting about ideating and other business school words is one thing, but when they constantly tell us to contact "Bill or I", "Bill or myself" -- tells me everything I need to know about them.

You literally just made my point. Why the hell is a colleague's "class" relevant to you? Their "class" has no bearing on their competence or capacity for doing good work (or, if you're making the same judgment calls in non-work settings, someone's capacity for being a good person).

And why does making a grammar error "tell you everything you need to know about them"?? Because now you know that they grew up lower class so you can turn your nose up at them? You're a seriously bad person.

This person is also uninformed. Because people who are informed about the English language and its history know that judging somebody based on grammar is about as Bourgeois as you can get. Do a little research into the history of prescriptive grammar before you judge people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Complaining about evolving language is about as basic, UMC as you can get.

I took "keyboarding" in HS in 1993. it has existed for ages.

My crotchety ASD father likes to complain about language evaluation - stuff like verbing, and adding an extra word to action verbs (like "swapping out" instead of just saying "swapping" - he things is SOOOOO low class). I think it's a sad way of lording your UMC education over someone who may not have had access to that type of grammar growing up - but is just as, or far more, intelligent and educated -just didn't have the consistent access to grammar. Basically, complaining about grammar is the equivalent of a grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn!!!".

I have always called it typing. Typewriters have keys. Keyboards have keys. One types on keys. Keying might the most appropriate gerund.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Complaining about evolving language is about as basic, UMC as you can get.

I took "keyboarding" in HS in 1993. it has existed for ages.

My crotchety ASD father likes to complain about language evaluation - stuff like verbing, and adding an extra word to action verbs (like "swapping out" instead of just saying "swapping" - he things is SOOOOO low class). I think it's a sad way of lording your UMC education over someone who may not have had access to that type of grammar growing up - but is just as, or far more, intelligent and educated -just didn't have the consistent access to grammar. Basically, complaining about grammar is the equivalent of a grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn!!!".

I have always called it typing. Typewriters have keys. Keyboards have keys. One types on keys. Keying might the most appropriate gerund.

English frequently offers two or more words to say the same thing, and often the words don’t exactly make sense. One that comes to mind is butterfly; the word made sense when it was “flutterby” but nobody complains that “butterfly” doesn’t mean butter flying.

[Anonymous]

It’s a white privilege thing to judge others, especially less educated, on how to use the English language.

[Anonymous]

looool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a white privilege thing to judge others, especially less educated, on how to use the English language.

No, that's just well-off privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what this class is about. It mentions "keyboarding". Is that new age lingo for typing? Keyboard used to be a noun. It seems like people are trying to make things sound smarter, but it just sounds dumber to me using a noun as a verb, and adds unnecessary confusion. Keyboarding could mean using a piano keyboard or using a computer keyboard. Why can't people just use the proper language? What is wrong with the word typing? Is it that no one knows how to type anymore because they only text in short sentences? Vent over.

Thec nature English language has been turned into a verb. I fight the verbalization of my mother tongue but have lost the battle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what this class is about. It mentions "keyboarding". Is that new age lingo for typing? Keyboard used to be a noun. It seems like people are trying to make things sound smarter, but it just sounds dumber to me using a noun as a verb, and adds unnecessary confusion. Keyboarding could mean using a piano keyboard or using a computer keyboard. Why can't people just use the proper language? What is wrong with the word typing? Is it that no one knows how to type anymore because they only text in short sentences? Vent over.

Thec nature English language has been turned into a verb. I fight the verbalization of my mother tongue but have lost the battle.

The entire English language ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what this class is about. It mentions "keyboarding". Is that new age lingo for typing? Keyboard used to be a noun. It seems like people are trying to make things sound smarter, but it just sounds dumber to me using a noun as a verb, and adds unnecessary confusion. Keyboarding could mean using a piano keyboard or using a computer keyboard. Why can't people just use the proper language? What is wrong with the word typing? Is it that no one knows how to type anymore because they only text in short sentences? Vent over.

Thec nature English language has been turned into a verb. I fight the verbalization of my mother tongue but have lost the battle.

Keyboarding could be a gerund. That's still a noun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, so I'm trying to figure out what this class is about. It mentions "keyboarding". Is that new age lingo for typing? Keyboard used to be a noun. It seems like people are trying to make things sound smarter, but it just sounds dumber to me using a noun as a verb, and adds unnecessary confusion. Keyboarding could mean using a piano keyboard or using a computer keyboard. Why can't people just use the proper language? What is wrong with the word typing? Is it that no one knows how to type anymore because they only text in short sentences? Vent over.

Thec nature English language has been turned into a verb. I fight the verbalization of my mother tongue but have lost the battle.

Keyboarding could be a gerund. That's still a noun.

"I am keyboarding my thesis.".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day. Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done. We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.

Students read books of the same genre and less new words more of the same. Thus limited vocabulary.

And don’t get me started how stupid the dialog writing is in kids’ graphic novels. Probably only need 200 total words to write most of those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a white privilege thing to judge others, especially less educated, on how to use the English language.

No, it’s just education. If you paid attention in Public school you’d speak and write just fine.