The Death of Bebo?

[Public'sTwin]

I know there's a vague movement on the interwebs to reclaim proper use of English, but there really needs to be something more formalised. Bebo's death should be a bell that tolls the formation of something like a Super Pretentious English Language League (of Gentleman), or SPELL.

We'll rove the particularly bad Social Networking sites, using images and basic rhymes to construct memes which emphasize the proper use of grammar. Dissenters would be ruthlessly made fun of in different, inventively witty ways, and the uninitiated would be provided with free spell-check plugins.

This could be a very good thing.

 

[Jondot]

I know there's a vague movement on the interwebs to reclaim proper use of English, but there really needs to be something more formalised. Bebo's death should be a bell that tolls the formation of something like a Super Pretentious English Language League (of Gentleman), or SPELL.

We'll rove the particularly bad Social Networking sites, using images and basic rhymes to construct memes which emphasize the proper use of grammar. Dissenters would be ruthlessly made fun of in different, inventively witty ways, and the uninitiated would be provided with free spell-check plugins.

This could be a very good thing.

Excellent, we'll meet somewhere effortlessly academic to plan further.

To the Prius!


Actually, I generally find I'm fairly tolerant of hideous English on the internet these days. I must be getting more tolerant. Either that or subconsciously I'm snooty enough to simply glide past and assume they're all cretins. Probably the latter, which is ironic considering I had to spell check 'subconsciously' there.

Anyway, the point I was going to make was that most of the offenders know eeeexactly what they're doing and are going to look on at witty pro-correct grammar remarks like they're constructed from book tokens. Put it this way, I doubt Mr Glanza will be writing about 'geebags' and 'little skags strung out on coke' in his forthcoming GCSE exams - simply because he's probably not that stupid and undoubtedly has a nice middle class family that he's secretly aching for approval from. Why he chooses to pretend he's a gangsta with his mouth on sideways I fail to understand, but evidently he doesn't take to criticism (or Airplane! quotes) on the matter terribly well. I imagine the rest of the chaps he drinks Carlsberg in a garage with are on much the same page - all terribly 'ard (*cough*), but not eminently without intelligence.


That's all a guess, of course.