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I just hope people will eventually stop typing "payed" for paid and "loose" for lose.

• r00fus 12y ago
  What's to say that "payed" won't end up winning in the end? I mean, it's a hell of a lot more logical, pay->payed, than pay->paid. The really amusing part about loose vs. lose is that both have a negative connotation, so the similarity in sense lends a dissonance to the "attuned eye" not unlike two musical notes slightly off pitch played interchangeably. If you want to control language evolution, perhaps you'd prefer the existence of something like the Académie Française and invented words like "courriel"?
  • krrrh 12y ago
    "Courriel" was actually invented by the Office québécois de la langue française. But your point stands. As far as I know the corresponding, and pretty great, word for spam, "pourriel", came from the streets.