Never forget that the stupidness to laziness ratio remains a constant 1:1

i.e. "I can't afford to pronounce an extra syllable because I'm a piece of human garbage!"

Says the guy using a contraction.

>> ^BoneRemake:

Says the guy using a contraction.



..that's not the point, the point is grammatical errors. A contraction is just dandy!

Leaving off the 'ed' is lazy and incorrect.

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Wow that sounds awful - I would never corrupt the word like that. BTW are we all doing tongue pictures now? Is that a thing?

>> ^UsesProzac:

>> ^BoneRemake:
Says the guy using a contraction.


..that's not the point, the point is grammatical errors. A contraction is just dandy!
Leaving off the 'ed' is lazy and incorrect.


""I can't afford to pronounce an extra syllable because I'm a piece of human garbage"

He chose to say Can't instead of Can not, he called others lazy (and garbage). that's my point. So swallow a zucchini ya donkey.

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^UsesProzac:
>> ^BoneRemake:
Says the guy using a contraction.


..that's not the point, the point is grammatical errors. A contraction is just dandy!
Leaving off the 'ed' is lazy and incorrect.

""I can't afford to pronounce an extra syllable because I'm a piece of human garbage"
He chose to say Can't instead of Can not, he called others lazy (and garbage). that's my point. So swallow a zucchini ya donkey.


All I've got on hand is yellow squash, would that suffice?

And @dag, yeah, tongue pictures are a thing now, so you better participate if you want to be hip and with it.

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I hate missing out on new stuff.>> ^UsesProzac:

>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^UsesProzac:
>> ^BoneRemake:
Says the guy using a contraction.


..that's not the point, the point is grammatical errors. A contraction is just dandy!
Leaving off the 'ed' is lazy and incorrect.

""I can't afford to pronounce an extra syllable because I'm a piece of human garbage"
He chose to say Can't instead of Can not, he called others lazy (and garbage). that's my point. So swallow a zucchini ya donkey.

All I've got on hand is yellow squash, would that suffice?
And @dag, yeah, tongue pictures are a thing now, so you better participate if you want to be hip and with it.

"
- Hey, bro, I totally text you after dinner last night.
- I said I would text you, and I text you as promised.
"
Those are bad, but

"
-I'll text you.
-I've texted you.
-you got my text
-Will you text me?
"
Are all fine.

"The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay in the narrow path she helped make, following the contour of the land, but she often profits by staying with it and she would be handicapped if she didn't know where it was or where it led to." --E.B. White

Little known fact: many irregular verbs started out as regular ones, and over time changed to irregular. One example is "drive." It used to be drive/drived/drived. Then, in what was to become Canada and the U.S., people started saying drive/drove/driven. English who visited the colonies were so distressed at this that they raised alarms about the deterioration of the language. One included, "What's next? 'dive/dove/diven'?" At the time, "dive" was also a fully regular "~ed" verb, and in time, it too changed to "dive/dove", but not "diven". Is our language now in a fallen state?

In a population, young people, typically, are the language innovators. Almost all permanent change to language comes originally from teenagers. So now some young people are saying "text/text/text". Looking at other verbs which follow the pattern --cut/cut/cut, cost/cost/cost, put/put/put, hit/hit/hit-- it seems there's a pattern: they all end in "t". Seems like the language is continuing to evolve in the same way it always has. Whether this language innovation will stick has yet to be seen.

But language will change from the way you learned to speak it. There is no doubt about that. You can accept it, or you can get stressed, but it's happening.