| Authors: | Sarah Grant |
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| 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.