Clever WoT: when it hits, it really hits.
Over at Clever WoT (Waste Of Time, not a pun on "Clever, what?") the occasionally-brilliant, oft-entertaining Kurt posts helpful answers to the questions implied by the searches that propelled folks to his blog.
Since it appears to be fashionable amongst the more illiterate segments of Brit society to spell "what" as "wot," in keeping with their alien pronunciation, Kurt gets a fair number of search hits from people with questions like "wot does tigers eat". If these folks represented the Future, there'd be trouble. Fortunately, I don't think they represent the future.
I note that the linked post has been admired by the Fark community - linklove is always a nice thing, if you can stand the traffic.
Kurt previously discussed "spelling-deficient English kids" at Wot Happened to Spelling?, which provides additional examples of disturbing mangling of the Anguished Linguage.
Since it appears to be fashionable amongst the more illiterate segments of Brit society to spell "what" as "wot," in keeping with their alien pronunciation, Kurt gets a fair number of search hits from people with questions like "wot does tigers eat". If these folks represented the Future, there'd be trouble. Fortunately, I don't think they represent the future.
I note that the linked post has been admired by the Fark community - linklove is always a nice thing, if you can stand the traffic.
Kurt previously discussed "spelling-deficient English kids" at Wot Happened to Spelling?, which provides additional examples of disturbing mangling of the Anguished Linguage.
Posted by Eh Nonymous on
Wednesday January 18, 2006 at 11:02am
*Not all comments welcome. Flippant, facetious, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit.