Right, then

[gothwalk]

There is no central authority for the English language. Therefore, I'm claiming it. I am now IT as far as English is concerned. You have queries on English, come to me, and I'll ignore most of them. This is mostly because I'm taking on this authority with two things in mind, and one footnote.

First and foremost, the word 'fail', and all its variants, are now, hereby and forever, excised from English. They no longer exist.

Second, the pseudo-word 'meh' is likewise sentenced to destruction. It is returned to being a nonsense syllable, carrying no meaning. It did not have far to go.

Footnote: 'Bleah' is on a last warning.

Carry on, then.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. The things today's prescriptivists furiously battle to preserve are often the same things that past generations' self-appointed language guardians struggled to defeat. (Or, oddly enough, they're fighting against something that they incorrectly perceive to be a perverse modern innovation, such as singular "they," due to a lack of being widely read or linguistically well informed.) (Not that I'm accusing gothwalk of being in with THAT Safirean crowd!)

Oddly, it took actually getting a master's degree in English for me to fully accept that position, but there you have it. I admit some things irk me, but I try not to be too curmudgeonly about it. It definitely takes some effort, though.