Re: Gen-Y'er boss in Dilbert cartoon

Russell wrote:
On Jun 26, 3:55 am, Marcos Martinez Sancho <noem...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070531.html
Cell-phone texting spelling. I hate it!

Marcos

We may be devolving. I just finished reading a book
on runes, and not only wasn't spelling fixed (a relatively
recent idea), the futhark (alphabet) changed over time,
and in fact in some areas dropped about 30% of the
letters leaving it difficult to represent certain sounds.

While I was teaching, I remarked about how bad some of my students spelled. The response I got was that I shouldn't worry about it because language is "evolving".

Go figure.


Cheers,
Russell

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