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Contrived words and spelling

10 December 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Language use and abuse
Contrived words generally make me queasy. Yes, I know English is a language in flux and neologisms come and go with annoying frequency. But when advertising and marketing companies get into the act and redesign the language for their own ends, the result is usually fatuous at best, and embarrassingly stupid at worst.

This post was sparked after I...

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Tags: English, bad spelling, metaplasmus, language 6 Comments


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The death of language, bureaucracy style

15 June 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Language use and abuse
I've often lamented that the Internet may be the death of proper English. I may be wrong. It might be bureaucracy.

Monday, Collingwood Council had a letter in the consent agenda portion - the section for outside correspondence - of the regular agenda. It was from the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (bizarrely under-capitalized as...

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Tags: English, abuse, grammar, language, usage, words 0 Comments


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A "pretty unique" year?

08 January 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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I was appalled when I read the headline of the...

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Tags: headline, English, grammar, unique, Enterprise Bulletin, language 4 Comments


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