Wildilocks Can Has Journal?

Warning: have a box of tissues handy, and don’t watch this anywhere you wouldn’t be comfortable with tears streaming down your face.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,850,000 for rediculous Did you mean: ridiculous

Results 1 - 10 of about 35,500,000 for ridiculous [definition]

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,580,000 for definatly Did you mean: definitely

Results 1 - 10 of about 142,000,000 for definitely [definition]

These results tell me two things:

1) Illiteracy is becoming rampant, MILLIONS of people are using these misspellings and many more [though these two in particular are becoming terrifyingly common], which means many people are starting to think that they are actually correct. If it were simply language morphing, I’d be more okay with it, but it’s not like these words are in some way a better representation of a concept, an interesting new take on something, a cultural shift. They are, simply, wrong, and come from misinterpretation of lazy verbal pronunciation.

2) People aren’t pointing out their errors often enough because we’re too damn polite and don’t want to offend our friends. I don’t really know what to do about this

So posted a few days ago about a new browser game he’s been playing, which I promptly got myself addicted to. It’s a trading based world-building game which is not a huge timesuck and is really rather quaint. If you have the potential to be interested in such things, check out Nile Online and let me know who you are. When you start off you have to work out trade via the messageboards or personal communication, until you have your own ship, which can take a while to source.

My Pharoah name is Qetesh, my first city is Qeteshtan, in the nome of Settept. I have an Emerald empire slowly building!