Saw this ad at the top of my Index Page:
“The Power of Ignite”. It would seem that Lolcatspeak has become mainstream. 
I’m not a language purist by any definition, but… this disturbs my calm a little.
The eye-catching capacity of non-standard grammar & usage is well known to sloganeers and wannabe catch-phrase writers alike. They’re doing it deliberately, precisely because it irritates your sense of propriety and makes you look twice.
Although it did make me look twice, my sense of propriety, such as it is, wasn’t irritated. You know me: I’m mindful of how I use language, but neither am I a bluenosed purist. However, I propose this dialect of English be called something like Dimwittian or Boobish.
I reckon “Stupidian” would also work.
Maybe Unglish.
I know there is an Ad at the top of the page and rarely, very rarely even notice it. The Ad even with colors and movement doesn’t catch my attention. Sound in the Ad would bother me, or a banner, pop-ups, etc., anywhere else on the screen would offend. I filter that stuff (Ads) mindlessly while on the computer because I’m a terrible shopper and don’t need anything that will appear in the Ads.
Sometimes I notice, sometimes I don’t. My favorite - which I haven’t seen in a while - had the legend, “Punch Bieber? Vote now!”
What’s not to love about that?
I’m sorry I missed that. 
I’ll have to pay better attention.
Sometimes there is a gem among the turds.
Methinks “boobish” and “stupidian” fall in the same category as “power of ignite.” Better to label it “poor grammar.”
Further, calling a “punch Bieber” banner a “jem among turds” strikes me as the pot questioning the kettle’s ancestry.
The hour, however, is late and most likely I am becoming boorish myself. Sleep well.
It is, in fact, poor grammar.
What use is poor grammar? It’s rather enjoyable to poke fun of it.
(And by the by, if I end a sentence with a preposition at some point, then do bear in mind that English is not a Romance language, but a Germanic one; the rules governing French grammar and sentence structure do not apply here.)
So a preposition is OK to end a sentence with?
Shakespeare did it, so if it’s good enough for him…
I do lead with my chin from time to time, it would seem. But in the spirit of exchanging volleys, I would never have quoted you with a spelling error you didn’t commit.
I haz a Ignite, let me sho u it.
As I’ve said before, the ‘rules’ of grammar are observed, not ordained, and are, hence, a moving target. No matter what you were taught, if the bulk of the population has moved on, ‘correct’ grammar is what they’re now doing, not what your grade three teacher told you was right.*
The primary characteristic of a living language is that it is in a constant state of change, and English, being the global language, changes fastest of all. Embrace it. It’s why we’re winning the language wars.
*As I enter my sixth decade, this gets harder, but in this I differ in no regard from every generation before me. What hurts most is that I still identify with the young, but they sure donèt with me.
How can they? They have no experiential point of reference to you, whereas you totally do to them no matter how they might claim otherwise. You know, it just occurred to me that while it is said that all are inevitably bypassed by the next generation, still it remains true that the bypassed are also inevitably ahead of the bypassers in kind, and not only in numbering years. A paradox, and a possible comfort, if a bit of a chilly one in the face of social age issues. And that doesn’t necessarily mean ageism. I remember becoming aware of it, but I couldn’t describe my feelings about the discovery in two words or less. I think this is where growing old gracefully is born.
But I’m lucky. I do have a couple of young folks who actually like to talk with me. You know, solving the world’s problems over a drink. I feel younger, and no doubt they find my opinions curious. I hope everyone will have this, drinks or no.
I confess the word “donèt” went right over my head, though, if it’s more than just a typo of a kind I’ve also never seen.
I think you’ll find it’s a typo. S1m0n seems to be having some sort of trouble with this sort of thing at the moment - keyboard issue, maybe?
Da! A kb issue is exactly what it is. i’m simultaneusly learning win 10 & a new tablet, which spent a few hours yesterday typing in french*. That’s annoying but not nearly so much as win 10’s refusal to show me the contents of a USB external DVD CD drive. That’s super annoying. Win 10 is better than Win 8, by a lot, but this ‘feature’ really sux.
Finding the control panel that actually controls the kb mapping (there are many false positives) is way harder than it ought to be. In the face of such intransigence, it is sometimes easer to live with the result until the next restart.
*Albeit Quebec (Canadian) French. I think. Jesus, itès half my blood. Phuck, it spontaneously happened again. This is annoying. Itès not always when I blaspheme, honest!
Ooooh. He said “intransigence”.
Hey, I’m set to get Windows 10 on the day appointed, myself. I decided to get it for free while I could rather than wait and pay over a hundred bucks for the novelty of a new and improved headache. How do you find it in general?