Simplifying English

Speaking. Using words. Putting. Sentences. Together. It's all so very irksome and tedious, isn't it? We try to lighten the load ourselves - refusing to correctly align subjects and predicates; replacing ‘have’ with ‘of’ (this particular point deserves a post of its own); shortening extensively long words like 'probably' into 'prob', 'sorry' into 'soz', and 'totally' into… you get the idea. But our ...

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Totes, I say

“Totes!” “Totes? Did you just say totes!?” “Yeah, did I offend you? Haha.” “‘Totes’ is a terrible abbreviation and should be reserved strictly for sarcasm. In my books, ‘totally’ and ‘totes’ are not synonymous.” “What’s ‘synonymous’?” “Oh dear.” Recently added to the standard list of abbrevs, ‘totes’ is defs not very presh! I first heard it used a couple of years ago. In a...

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Greetings, travellers

My name's Matt, and this is my blog. It's about language and other things, progressively more other things and less language [07/07/14]. Language sounds boring, doesn't it? Well, it's not. It's art, and there's so much to say about it. Like why 'totes' doesn't belong in anyone's colloquial English vocabulary (please see post number two), and why verbing nouns is super fun (work in progress)....

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