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Citizen complaint of the day: Think of the children in Charlestown
By adamg on Sat, 09/16/2023 - 8:52am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about an electronic signboard with a misspelling at Saint Martin and Medford street in Charlestown - and the potential impact of that on Charlestown's younger residents:
Please reprogram with correct spelling. Pic doesn’t capture, but it says “Strickly enforced” instead of “Strictly enforced”. It’s on the same street as our high school and is in front of a playground. This is a bad example for our kids. We can do better. Thank you.
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spelling is going the way of cursive
It's a thing of the past.
A few more things
A few related things going the way of dinosaurs:
1) The past participle--when did this vanish? For example, I see signs on doors and gates that say "please keep this door close" regularly.
2)The letter "T" in the middle of words --I know there are regional accents and all, but it seems that so many more people now say things like "mow-en" (mountain) and "ki-en" (kitten).
T-glottalization!
I grew up with it, so I'm not really aware of whether it's showing up more or less or in different groups, but I think it's pretty common? Wikipedia says it shows up for various groups in the UK, US, and Canada, though in different ways.
Definitely increasing
With a quick peruse, I found a number of articles online that indicate that T-glottalization is definitely on the increase in the US, especially among younger females, who, according to the articles, always seem to be on the cutting edge of changing speech patterns. Think uptalk and vocal fry. I hear things like "impor-enh" for "important", which glottalizes the T in both the middle and the end of the word, all the time now.
Only on the margins
Wholesale anarchy with spelling wouldn't work very well with our technology and media, which act as a limiting force, so I think that's overwrought.
So is literacy, apparently
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Funny thing about that ...
I remember when school parent groups went to email.
It wasn't the kids who had atrocious spelling.
That's what I fought
but apparantlee thell be teaching cursive to my kid this yeer.
Speling sucs!
Speling sucs!
hmmm...
Tell me you're a toonie without telling me your a toonie..
Mommas for Commas
If anyone has access to The Boston Globe, one of the Reader’s Forum responses is pure gold!
“Clear a path for ‘Mommas for Commas,’ guardians of the language!
In response to the Moms for Liberty, a group determined, it seems, to eliminate any mention of gender or race from public schools, I call for the formation of a counterinsurgency: Mommas for Commas….”
Officer Strickly...
Would like a word with the citizen who thinks he isn't doing his job. /s
10 itemz or ...
fewer.