To me, on most days, the majority of people in the world are "Ned"...

[IntravenousDemilo]

... especially those who really shouldn't, but do, post in online forums. What made me seek out this commercial was seeing the phrase "nip it in the butt" earlier today, which made me despair that some people are allowed near computers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrqy5S-H_A

"French benefits" indeed.

[Bossy Monkey]

1. This kind of elidism needs to be nipped in the butt. One of the French benefits of living in a

computer littered society is that everybody has the right to suppress themselfs irregardless of their ability or skill at gramattical electrocution. Such freedom is unpresidented in our history, and nobody should be embraced because of laxative language skills. I think we should all take an active roll in internet discussion boreds, and let the good times role! Otherwise, we're no better than the terrierists.


But seriously, I was just thinking we ought to have a contest to see who could throw the perfect(ly ungrammatical) game, ie write the longest, awfullest paragraph using as many malapropisms as possible. Might be fun. PS: Help for the above from: http://chronicle.com/news/article/5069/herding-the-escape-goats-contest-sends-up-epidemic-of-student-howlers

[madinmaryland]

2. Just don't tutch the but! SERIESLY!

[Kutjara]

3. We live in the "post-literate" age, dontcha know?

Many people write what they (think they) hear, and lack the basic curiosity to check whether what they heard what actually what was said (or even whether what they heard makes any kind of sense). Written language has little value for them except to communicate their immediate feelings, and pretty much anything more than a grunt or a belch gets that job done adequately.

I don't know if this means people are getting any stupider, but just that people who historically would have had little opportunity to have their writing read by a global audience can now do so from the comfort of their own toilet.

My view is that humans have always been stupid. The magic of the Internet is that, for the first time in history, it lets us see just how stupid we really are.