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I’ve never heard or seen “ze” anywhere before this, so it can’t be very widespread. This reminds me of the history of Esperanto. I don’t think that it’s impossible for a coined term to gain acceptance, but in this case, the use of the plural pronouns has already spread so widely that if anything is going to be accepted, that with be it. Or them.</p>
<p>There is a reason I said certain communities. </p>
<p>Trust me, I don’t for a second pretend it’s popular or widespread.</p>
<p>“While winter was a no-show at ski areas, Mt. Washington has both unusually good quality and far less skiers than normal.” This was a headline in today’s newspaper. </p>
<p>I just Googled the article, and the error has been corrected in the online edition. Thank goodness!</p>
<p>I cringed when I saw the name of the rapper Ludacris. A whole generation of kids will think the word is spelled this way. :(</p>
<p>^oh my gosh… It isn’t spelled like that?</p>
<p>Just looked it up. I’ve been spelling that word wrong my entire life.</p>
<p>Hahahahahaha…</p>
<p>I think there’s a “sense” you get for English spelling after you’ve seen enough words, especially if they are from Greek or Latin. Certain prefix/suffixes turn up again and again.</p>
<p>ludicrous, rediculous, tedious, anxious. I’m not bothering to look these up, but I sense they have analogous (there it is again) endings. Seems obvious. :)</p>
<p>*(Even if English is notably un-reliable, spelling-wise.)</p>
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Umm…</p>
<p>^And we’d complained about it upthread! Really! :)</p>
<p>Does anyone ever fix grammar mistakes when quoting someone else’s post? Or add (sic)? Or just cut & paste no matter how egregious the error?</p>
<p>And I confess, I looked up how to spell egregious. Imagine my surprise to find this (don’t you just love the English language?):</p>
<p>e·gre·gious/iˈgrējəs/
Adjective:<br>
<p>^Haha. Ridiculous. Guess I was only looking at the ending. This site needs spell check! :D</p>
<p>If you have Firefox as your browser, it has spell check built in. (Amusingly it insisted I capitalize Firefox.)</p>
<p>I was wondering: Is Shrinkrap another way of saying “Psycho babble?” 
You may have noted that somewhere here in another post, but it just came to me and I had to ask!</p>
<p>“I could care less.”</p>
<p>So you care at least a little?</p>
<p>I like what Stephen Fry said about the English language:</p>
<p>“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.”
― Stephen Fry,</p>
<p>Things change! Thank God!</p>
<p>The original sarcastic undertone of “I could care less” is very obvious to me. Yes, it’s turned into just itself, but that’s where it came from, clearly. It’s odd that it’s unacknowledged now.</p>
<p>I could care fewer?</p>