Today's Language Log post was about twetiquette or the complaints about the grammar and posts on Twitter.
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If you'd like to take up the task, some of the "twitter scolds" mentioned in the article are GrammarCop, Twenglish Police, Grammar Fail, Grammar Hero, Tweeting Too Hard, and Twitter Fail.
Apparently there are many others as well. Some enterprising scholar of Peevology could no doubt get a few research publications out of this phenomenon, thus raising the process another meta.
When it comes to language complaints, there's always something!
April 30, 2010, 06:50
zmježd
LOL. I went and added Mr Cusack as a friend. I like his attitude about they CyberThistelbottoms. I do like the term Tweet Scold, though. It's almost as good a grammaticohooligans. In fact, I think I'll start a Facebook group dedicated to studying peevers of all bents. It's not so much the scolding, it's the incivility of their tweets.
[Addendum: OK, I started a Facebook group called The Morphology of Peevology[/i].]This message has been edited. Last edited by: zmježd,
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
April 30, 2010, 11:41
arnie
I've joined.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 30, 2010, 22:08
Kalleh
Me too.
May 01, 2010, 07:33
zmježd
Welcome; I better get posting.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
August 27, 2013, 19:54
Kalleh
Dr. Phil got into a little Twetiquette problem, didn't he? Couldn't have happened to a better person.
August 27, 2013, 20:46
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I think it depends on whether cash has changed hands or not.
