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Message: <blockquote data-quote="breschau" data-source="post: 4192584" data-attributes="member: 52376">It's not ignorant to invent a word and use it. It's ignorant to misspell words. I've done it, you've done it, everyone's done it. Mistakes happen. But when a mistake lasts 30+ years, gets used in various places, by different companies over that 30 year span, now that's something different. Someone misspelled a word 30 years ago and that misspelling has lasted all this time, at this point, it's a word. Get used to it. You can't go back and take it out of those books. That it's not in the dictionary is irrelevant. It's a created word with little use. It's not ignorant. I'm sorry that you think it is.My English professors think it's ignorant to use Google as a lowercase verb. Things change. Do a bit of research into the evolution of words. They change all the time. Most compound words start as open (two words separated by a space). They transition into hyphenated words. Eventually they form closed compounds (no space, no hyphen). According to you, that's ignorant. But, that's the how language work. Every English scholar on Earth knows this, but to you, that's ignorant. I'll go with the professors on this one, thanks.Electronic mail, E-mail, e-mail, email. Wow. Magically all of those are correct spellings. Yet, when first introduced, people protested. When it became hyphenated, people protested. When the upper case was dropped, people protested. When the hyphen was dropped, people protested. Yet, they're all correct spellings. But because it changes, you think that's ignorant. If you don't want language to change, go study Latin or some other dead language.American English is the ignorant and misspelled red-headed step child of English. English is a collection of ignorant misspellings of Middle English words. (At the time they thought they were standardizing the spelling; but they were just ignorant.) Middle English is a bastard of Old English, which is a goof from West Germanic branches of Indo-European. So where exactly are you drawing the line? What's an ok misspelling for you? According to Old English it's not even "English" it's "Englisc". That's the proper way to spell it, originally. But, guess what? That's only when using the Latin alphabet, instead of the runes you're supposed to.Things change. Either start spelling and speaking Old English or accept that languages change.</blockquote>

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