I admit to my comment being mostly a joke. I do have an issue with people choosing to not use correct orthography, when there is syntactic meaning (especially in long prose) but, I’m well aware that that is a me/neurodivergent thing. As is my writing style, which likely heavily influenced by deep-set fear of the intent of my communication being misunderstood or taken the wrong way.
I actually agree with a lot of what you have written here - language is a living thing, both in its verbal form and its textual representation. It is constantly evolving in new, interesting, and (my favorite) weird ways to better suit what things people need to communicate. I think that’s a beautiful thing.
It is statistically easier to become a billionaire than it is to become a writer making a living wage in the USA. The guild is dead, yet the artisan beats the broken drum with assiduity.
I would like to see your data on that as I don’t think that’s terribly accurate, at least, I really hope not, as becoming a billionaire statistically requires having been born already wealthy.
I honestly wish I recalled all of the syntactic rules. My orthography is often a passé of an impulsive fence.
Unfortunately, I am not one to save trivia references. All I can say is that there was a meme about the statistics that seemed rather convincing at the time. I’m on a network connection that is not very conducive to general research in this vain and far to lazy to spin up a capable machine to cite some valid source. So consider it poor hearsay gossip amongst friends. There is no ill intent or attempt at fabrication on my part. I imagine such a claim is largely dependant on how one measures a living wage and the temporal constraints of value. The idea resonates with my intimate understanding of the information bottleneck present in the current world.
I admit to my comment being mostly a joke. I do have an issue with people choosing to not use correct orthography, when there is syntactic meaning (especially in long prose) but, I’m well aware that that is a me/neurodivergent thing. As is my writing style, which likely heavily influenced by deep-set fear of the intent of my communication being misunderstood or taken the wrong way.
I actually agree with a lot of what you have written here - language is a living thing, both in its verbal form and its textual representation. It is constantly evolving in new, interesting, and (my favorite) weird ways to better suit what things people need to communicate. I think that’s a beautiful thing.
I would like to see your data on that as I don’t think that’s terribly accurate, at least, I really hope not, as becoming a billionaire statistically requires having been born already wealthy.
I honestly wish I recalled all of the syntactic rules. My orthography is often a passé of an impulsive fence.
Unfortunately, I am not one to save trivia references. All I can say is that there was a meme about the statistics that seemed rather convincing at the time. I’m on a network connection that is not very conducive to general research in this vain and far to lazy to spin up a capable machine to cite some valid source. So consider it poor hearsay gossip amongst friends. There is no ill intent or attempt at fabrication on my part. I imagine such a claim is largely dependant on how one measures a living wage and the temporal constraints of value. The idea resonates with my intimate understanding of the information bottleneck present in the current world.