Image via Wikipedia Maybe the times are really a-changin', because when I was a child it was completely forbidden to mix-up languages . Our teachers would downright scream at us if we for example were speaking Spanish and (out of laziness) used an English word when there was a Spanish one available. All languages borrow words from others, for example Spanish has a lot of Arabic -influenced words but these had been official additions to the language, so it was acceptable. Higher in the getting yelled a phase was Spanglish , which I find so irritating because I spent years learning proper English. 99% of the Spanglish that we run into is more a direct result of laziness than lack of proper knowledge of the language. What we are having now is even worse. I am not even worried about people saying " google " instead of search (ask Xerox about this), the problem is that people are getting too sloppy with their writing, because they don't understand context. Just beca...
Because a waste is a terrible thing to mind.