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In Reply to: Please forgive me, but I can't take it anymore!!! posted by Muzikmike on November 28, 2002 at 16:49:58:
I thought I was the only one who cared about standard usage anymore. That's why I hang around AA. So many erudite people.Though I enjoy the internet, computer-speak and the internet have done more damage to the English language than anything else in the past 25 years. Example: functionality. "-ity" is a prefix meaning "state of". Therefore, functionality would be "state of function". Huh??!!???!!? What is meant is function. Of course, "reinvent" can't be blamed on the computer folks. Invent meants to produce something previously unknown. Once it is known, it can't be unknown again. To reinvent is impossible. The word wanted is transform, in almost all cases.
As a final note, the disasterous decline in standard usage can be placed squarely on the shoulders of my fellow teachers, who for years have refused to correct students oral language and often do not correct written errors either.
I have to stop now, or I may scream.
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