At 11:40 PM 05/13/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>Of course, were I to try to disguise authorship of an article,
>I might sprinkle in a few illiteracies of the current mode:
>
>"Like what do we have to loose? My bad! Lates."
The disturbing thing about such speech is that,
at least to an American speaker of English,
your examples are entirely comprehensible,
assuming some context for the conversation,
though the lack of a comma after "Like"
displays either a certain emotional tone of the speaker
or else a lack of punctuation skills;
while computer programmers have an inherent need to
remember and use correct grammar and syntax in
synthetic languages, a surprising number seem incapable of
doing the same in natural languages, even their native ones,
perhaps due to lack of compilers providing immediate feedback
during their formative years, or an unwillingness to trust
spellcheckers for their conversations at the present,
or a general disrespect for the values of earlier times,
hoping to replace them with a current artistic sensibility that
is perhaps not up to the task,
I remain, yr. obediant servant, ....
23-skidoo ...
hack hack ...
