Spelin
My spelling worries me at times, and it's not my fault at all.
There is so much written material being produced using the English language today, most of it by unqualified people, that I have become infected by this superinundation of verbal effluvia (ha ha, I just said that to test my word-power!).
You can say,"We don't want to lose our powers of description". But the word "lose" is one of the words we have already lost, I'm afraid. And I'm the loser now that language use is looser, because what I see very often is the word "loose" when people mean "lose". And I get so used to seeing it that when I see the correct spelling I see it as a mistake. Something looks wrong!
Either we must throw away all the dictionaries and abandon English to the hyaenas, or...something must be done. (Ha ha again, I just felt like saying that - it's very dramatic!)
Today I feel I have helped the cause through not making errors and putting in a bit of effort to give my sentences a measure of moral fibre. However probably now nobody can understand what I'm saying so I'd better mess around with it until it looks a bit more normal. Is there perhaps a tool I can use that un-spellchecks this document? It could be more easily done by just easing the tension in my concentration. Just relax the attention a bit and everything might flow the normal way.
We've nothing to lose once we let it loose! (Because it is already gone!)
(PS I will keep writing in the "making an effort" style if you don't mind).
Goodbye! (For now...)
There is so much written material being produced using the English language today, most of it by unqualified people, that I have become infected by this superinundation of verbal effluvia (ha ha, I just said that to test my word-power!).
You can say,"We don't want to lose our powers of description". But the word "lose" is one of the words we have already lost, I'm afraid. And I'm the loser now that language use is looser, because what I see very often is the word "loose" when people mean "lose". And I get so used to seeing it that when I see the correct spelling I see it as a mistake. Something looks wrong!
Either we must throw away all the dictionaries and abandon English to the hyaenas, or...something must be done. (Ha ha again, I just felt like saying that - it's very dramatic!)
Today I feel I have helped the cause through not making errors and putting in a bit of effort to give my sentences a measure of moral fibre. However probably now nobody can understand what I'm saying so I'd better mess around with it until it looks a bit more normal. Is there perhaps a tool I can use that un-spellchecks this document? It could be more easily done by just easing the tension in my concentration. Just relax the attention a bit and everything might flow the normal way.
We've nothing to lose once we let it loose! (Because it is already gone!)
(PS I will keep writing in the "making an effort" style if you don't mind).
Goodbye! (For now...)
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