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People clamouring to defend bad spelling/grammar pisses me off more than people accidentally making bad spelling/grammar mistakes because they don't know any better. Indeed, I know I make spelling and grammar mistakes all the time, but I don't defend them.
"The English language evolves," is still not an excuse. Can't is not, and will never be a word. It is two words. Even abbreviated it is still two words. And "cant" can not, in any way, shape, or form, stand in for "can not" without that apostrophe.
RELATED RANT: FIREFOX SPELL CHECK IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT.
... Okay, I think I'm done.
"The English language evolves," is still not an excuse. Can't is not, and will never be a word. It is two words. Even abbreviated it is still two words. And "cant" can not, in any way, shape, or form, stand in for "can not" without that apostrophe.
RELATED RANT: FIREFOX SPELL CHECK IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT.
... Okay, I think I'm done.
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... I dunno, as a linguistics student there is a part of me that goes "language should be descriptive and hundreds of years ago they were ranting about the use of the word "talent" as anything other than a type of money and things do change" and then I see someone use "prejudice" as an adjective or "could care less" and that voice is drowned out by RAGE