For our friend Scott

[Damien the Leper]

@Scott Lloyd

The struggle is real.

[Scott Lloyd]

2 hours ago, Damien the Leper said:

@Scott Lloyd

The struggle is real.

I became acquainted with this several years ago. I love it, because it highlights so many of my pet peeves, deftly concentrated into a few minutes of clever and infectious recorded content. It’s as if Weird Al had consulted me before writing the lyrics.

My favorite line: “could care less” means “you do care, at least a little.” I’ve even quoted it to quickly and efficiently explain why “could care less” lacks logical sense. 
 

Also, “Listen up when I tell you this: Never use quotation marks for emphasis.”

Edited January 13, 2023 by Scott Lloyd

[Damien the Leper]

I love that you love this. 

[Pyreaux]

Well, I couldn't care less.

[InCognitus]

13 hours ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Also, “Listen up when I tell you this: Never use quotation marks for emphasis.”

There's a woman that works for one of my biggest clients, and she does this all the time and in every single email she sends.  It drives me nuts.  I just looked at an email she sent today and I counted four times where she used quote marks inappropriately in it.

[Scott Lloyd]

6 hours ago, InCognitus said:

There's a woman that works for one of my biggest clients, and she does this all the time and in every single email she sends.  It drives me nuts.  I just looked at an email she sent today and I counted four times where she used quote marks inappropriately in it.

Ad copy writers are notorious violators of this norm. And I too find it grating. 
 

It’s supposed to be bad internet etiquette to use ALL CAPS for emphasis (looks like shouting), but where there are no other tools at my disposal (italics, boldface, underscore), I will resort to using it as a tool of emphasis before I will succumb to the misuse of quotation marks. 

[Derl Sanderson]

And even in national media, where people supposedly have attained the highest level of competence in use of the language, they commonly misuse number/amount and less/fewer.

[The Nehor]

Irregardless, a language continues to “evolve”.

Edited January 14, 2023 by The Nehor

[Calm]

You are evil…in a fun kind of way, of course.

[InCognitus]

I also like Weird Al's not so subtle slam at Alanis Morissette.   Irony is not coincidence: 

[Scott Lloyd]

22 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Irregardless, a language continues to “evolve”.

Degrade, rather. 

[The Nehor]

31 minutes ago, Scott Lloyd said:

Degrade, rather. 

English is a mutt language like all languages. There is no Platonic ideal to degrade from. Language evolves the way organisms evolve. Useful things survive. Useless things die off. The stuff that facilitates communication survives.

[Tacenda]

On 1/15/2023 at 12:18 PM, Scott Lloyd said:

Degrade, rather. 

You're missed Scott, how've you been? I hope well! And maybe by not posting you have some time to enjoy!