"-ly" and the continuing death throes of the English language

Oh... my.
(But is it that wrinkled?!?!)

 

That thing doesn't want to live. You can tell.

 

Killick. C'mon, man. You post was all wrong. Here's how it should have looked.

dnt normaly consida mself as vmuch of a grama nazi, bt dis one's bn buggin d sht outa me l8ly.

overherd n d past wk:

• sevrl references on TV/radio of sum1 "not takN fings pRsNL."

• ftbl analyst crowing dat an injurd playa needed 2 "get off d field qik."

• Ripken Jr. on Dan Patrick shO 2day, hyping "Teen drivN safeT Week" by noting dat evry1 "should drV responsibl."

AAAAAARGH! WTF S hapNg 2 doze quite nSSRe 2 letAs "ly"? u do or dnt taK fings personaly. Dude must alight d field qkly. drV responsibLY.

Gsus. wl d bastardization of d en lang nvr Nd? yais, I nd 2 gt a lyf, bt Iv jst bn noticing an incr of dis anoyiN trend l8ly. Egads.

All of that would probably made perfect sense to a lot of teenagers. :

 

Congrats BS, you win this year's Mark Twain prize for difficult to read colloquial writing ...

 

Don't thank me. Thank the texting translator site I found.

 

When they are adverbs, at least.

 

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits, BS. Or groin. Yeah, that's it. Groin. Take that, you promulgator. :

 

My latest grammar pet peeve is that many writers/editors have just given up trying to distinguish between affect and effect and just substitute IMPACT for both.

 

Never seen a plucked cat before.

 

I confused the two on my first broadcast paper as a sophomore, and because of that, I've never done it again (I think).