Originally Posted by
Detlef
The English language is totally indefensible as there are more exceptions than rules.
Various elite monarchs have added bits from their country of origin plus allowing all sorts of alien words to infiltrate.
Due to its size and influence, the USA has become the custodian of (world) English and we can blame them as well for computer speak (but not mobile text as they prefer oral communication).
Many of the typos on the various forums (and especially FB and Twitter) are due to fat fingers and small smartphone keyboards.
Last rants:
A pet hate of mine is superfluous adjectives, for example "anytime soon" - what information does the anytime add.
Another is phrases where one word would suffice , for example "at this moment in time" = now.
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