It's only words.

Hello. Me again.

Glad you enjoyed my ode to the fly (again).  It was nice to hear that so many people missed me and were glad to see me back, even if it was a re-hash of an old post that I made my come back with.  I don't know why I stayed away.  Laziness I suppose.

Anyway, I read something today that made me think again of something else I had written about awhile ago.

Today, I read that the word 'adorkable' is now in the Collins dictionary.  As voted in by Twitter users.  (I'm a twitter user, and I don't remember being asked to vote!)  'Jorts' and 'twerk' have also been added to the Oxford dictionary, in case you're interested?!

I watched a television program about language changes recently, where a couple of 'boffins of the English language pointed out how our language has changed over the last few decades.  Fair enough, that makes sense, I have trouble with the stuff Shakespeare wrote all those year ago.  They, the boffins, also told me that in a hundred years nobody will understand what we have written today.

A hundred years??

At the rate we are adding new words to our vocabulary I don't think we will have to wait that long.  I already have trouble understanding the person of the younger generation that lives in this house with me.  When I disturb him by asking a simple question (for example:  "How are you?")  I get such responses as:  "Effort!!  You're wrecking the buzz Ma!!".

And don't get me started on the over use of the word 'like'.

With that in mind, and in case that, a hundred years from now, somebody is reading this post, I though I would write in the style of today.

So, like.  Bored, actually!  Squee, like! (emoji)  Bored cos I'm, like, on an enforced digital detox.  Effort!  Enforced detox cos the WiFi is down.  Did I tell you, like, that I was at a gig at the weekend with the folks, and my Dad was, like, srsly bad twerking to 1D, I was literally, like, morto,   (Unlike!!!)  So, going now for some retail therapy, like, with my hunz.  Might buy some flatforms or cake pops, oh ya, deffo cake pops, cos they are, like, buzzworthy.  Tho', like, if I do buy anything I wont' be able to selfie as my phablet is out of credit.  Effort!  It's enough to make you. like, vom! (emoji, emoji, emoji)  Deffo doing the streetfood while I'm out.  Like.  SERIOUSLY!!  Bored, (emoji, emoji...) xoxo

Imagine Shakespeare reading that!  Although he could probably turn it into a three act tragedy very quickly. And I wouldn't like to be an English teacher trying to correct it.

I read a quote on Twitter today from somebody who speaks English very well, the Queen of England!  She said "There are no 'Americanisms', there are just mistakes." Could she be considered adorkable?

Would love to stay and chat, but I have a dinner to make, a dog to walk and some twerking to practice...