i like the english language. i like it to do my bidding!
and so for years now i have played around with it, removing most capital letters [except for words associated with God like Love, Grace and Justice when i mean them in a God-related way way], changing nouns into verbs [see “vibe” and “vibing”] and other parts of speech, spelling words in my own unique, often phonetical way [thort for the week] or sometimes just adding in letters that don’t make a lot of sense just because they feel like they make sense in my mind [thankx] and more.
turns out i’m not the only one:
we like me some Calvin and Hobbes…
i also very much like the three dots, and i know they have an official name, but i don’t like that so much [but please do remind me what it is again] so i will stick with ‘the three little dots’ thank you very much… i end way too many sentences with them.
but not that one…
it’s a life to the full thing i think. you do only live less than twice so you might as well have fun with it. is it silly? absolutely. but it’s my quirk [well one of them]. some people wear make-up. i don’t generally wear make up so think of this as the make-up of my speech or at least my written speech. the three dots are my mascara.
what about you? any words you deliberately change or misspell? any conventions you like to cut corners on? do you too like ending sentences a preposition with? cos rumours are you can’t!
however, i am still a bit of a ‘there’ ‘they’re’ ‘their’ stickler so please keep those in Hors d’oeuvre!
that is all…
I think kool looks better than cool. I also like how the ‘k’ seems to emphasise the plosive better than the ‘c’ – seems more expressive to me.
BTW, I’m going to use this for an English test…
brett fish anderson, changing the south african english curriculum one silly video and blog post at a time…
Confusing “your” and “you’re” still kills me, however… I do love the words “cray cray”. It’s true. I also quite like sentences that get punched. after. every. word.
urgh ‘C__y C__y’ [can’t even write it] – big. dislike. we changed it officially to ‘Crayon’ as in ‘He’s so cray-on’ in Philadelphia or in our house in Philadelphia at least… much better…
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