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Words suck, Gramer is a tool of fascism and we only spell celerity the way we do, because shakespear wrote it that way. Long live the living language.

This was funny.

Zombieneighbours wrote:

At which point, i will have to make an alias 'the dyslexic resistance' and engage in acts of linguistic terrorism against the facist state of Grammar. It is my understanding that English, has no language collage. That there is no 'correct' way of using english beyond common usage.

Sorry for the supremely of topic nature of this post.

There are rules to the English language. The primary reason for this is simply so that other people can understand what you are talking about. "Common usage" may be true for spoken language, but then you don't need to spell things out when you speak.

"English" to my knowledge is always capitalized. A really minor point and normally I wouldn't care.

"of topic" -- Technically this would be closer to "on topic" which is opposite of what you were trying to say. It's pretty easy to spot the typo and see that you simply missed an additional "f" and, again, I would normally ignore this.

"English has no language collage" -- This is the one that got me.

American Heritage Dictionary wrote:

Collage -- An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.

I'm not sure how a language can be a composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface. I guess that you can write out a bunch of words and/or sentences onto different materials and then cut them all out and paste them onto a board in an artistic manner. But then I'm not sure what that has to do the sentence you wrote.

I believe you meant "college" -- in which case I believe that there most likely are some -- there seems to be a college for everything. (Of course there's probably a "collage" for everything as well.)

English is a living language, unlike french which has the Académie française, english has no governing body, or language college. We have numerous colleges and universities which teach english as a subject, but the language has no governing authority. Until relatively resently all english words where spellt in a personal manner, in fact, the only reason the we spell celerity, the way we do, is due to the fact that it was the personal spelling used by shakespear.

All rules of english as a language exist purely because they are in common use, no higher authority says that a silent E caused a word to use a vowls name rather than sound in itss pronouncation. But we use this system to describe that sound in a word, because we are taught to, and every one else does. This is an example of common use controlling the nature language.

This is also why neologism, Slang and derived words are so common in english and why english is so good at asymilating elements of other languages. For Pukka to Pajamas.

I should note that i am very heavily dyslexic, and the written word is a medium i am really not at home with using, despite loving it. My numerous spelling mistakes are invisible to me. It is not that i do not know the difference between of and off. But when writing, it becomes very hard to remember which i am using. words and letters are, often, little more than lines and sqiggles to me. I merely hope that i manage to express my meaning and some degree of intelligence, despite.