Stop Smooshing words together in serious discussions

a reply to: olaru12

No, I can't speak for DB but slow and easy is my MO. uh oh another acronymn....

Or 'sleasy' in smoosh speak.

Only joking with you, slow and easy sounds good.

a reply to: Nyiah

Like Totally.

a reply to: schuyler
not really. most people who complain about grammar just want it to be comprehensable and not have to re-read things.
they dont care about simple mistakes that we all make, just when it's obvious laziness that make it a chore to read.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Sorry, just teasing you.

It made me laugh though, it was worded just fine.

a reply to: beansidhe

I like 'Smoosh Speak'! Oh wait, it's what I am ranting about, but it seems so harmless with the word 'smoosh' being used.

a reply to: MrsNonSpecific

Just a thought.....

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott

a reply to: MrsNonSpecific

You have accidentally 'cutened' your own rant, but no worries.

a reply to: olaru12

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing" - Robert Benchley"

Well that explains the silent majority.

a reply to: beansidhe

Foiled by my own petard!

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma.....lol

It's just the world we llive in - from text speak and all manner of random acronyms and abbreviations, to 'smooshed' words, I guess so long as we can understand it and know how it's being used, then meh - whatever.

a reply to: stargatetravels

But do you think it is acceptable in a serious journalistic tone when reporting on something serious? On Radio 4 I heard a journalist ask a German politician about the 'Brexit'- how do you translate that to German? (It was being translated directly, the translator would have had to say 'British Exit' in full in German.

Brexit is in the Oxford dictionary.

Brexit

Brexit Pronunciation: /ˈbrɛksɪt/ (also Brixit ˈbrɪksɪt)

Definition of Brexit in English: noun A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union:

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It may be lazy but it is legitimate.