Evolution of the English Language from Text to Texting
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:Authors: Sarah Grant
:Time: 11:40
:Session: http://docs.writethedocs.org/en/2013/conference/talks.html#sarah-grant
:Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxb1aEQ9dRc

Writer, not a programmer, fiction as well as copywriting. The OED
documents the entymology of the English language, but text-speak is
evolving beyond that. She looked up "orientated", which to her dismay
is *in* the OED, first introduced by Harper's magazine in 1857. So if
that's a word, and if the English language is evolving, are there any
rules that are inviolate? The language is *not* static, even if we
choose to correct grammar according to the Chicago Manual of Style.