(Just some of) The Problems With English: A Fretful Whine

[Bitten]

OMFG, no! People do this with everything at my work. What a way to present yourself in your place of business. NOT plurals:

PDF's
8's
company's
day's

I have to go wash my eyeballs and cut my fingers off now that I've typed that.

Lol, I'll join you.

 

[ShimmaPuff]

... If you say it often enough, it will become part of the "real" English.

Oh, yes! That is the fun part - the paradox that the very not-a-real-language-hood petard upon which so many of us produced by populations who arrived at the written language bucket a few millennia before some of our brothers and sisters love to hoist English every bit as high as we raise our ancient noses is actually the very thing that has made it so useful for all those conversations about money and programming code and computer hardware, which in turn causes such wailing and gnashing of teeth among the stodgy purist sector of speakers of other languages, their venerable panties all awad because their grandchildren are calling it a jardraiv instead of a disquete duro, that is, when they are not huddled in some dark corner, draijumpiando...

 

[LADC_chick]

LOL!

First off, I tried to read that in one breath, but was unsuccessful. Secondly, that was funny! Love the mangled Spanglish there.

 

[dooneydiva]

This is a perfect example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osK2qKA5pZw&feature=related