Comments on: Questions for a Language Ninja: Which Language Trends Do You Love to Hate? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/language-ninja-language-trends-love-to-hate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-ninja-language-trends-love-to-hate Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Holly Troupe https://old.wordsbyapro.com/language-ninja-language-trends-love-to-hate/#comment-119 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:01:41 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=887#comment-119 The Ninja thanks you from the bottom of her fictive heart. She can think of no better ally on her global campaign than the mighty Spartacus, especially since the Ninja has grown quite slothful from her years as an armchair crusader, and can no longer fit into her shinobi shozoku without an elaborate network of Spanx. Her “enemies” list is as follows:*

1. Unrepentant, chronic users of the expression “Wow. Just…wow.”*
2. Whoever decided that an emoji could qualify as “Word of the Year.” (Are we moving back to hieroglyphics?)*
3. The inventor of mozzarella sticks. (The reason the Ninja’s Grappling hook can no longer support her weight.)*

Dispatch them however you see fit. The Ninja will be binge-watching “Game of Thrones” if you need her.

]]> By: Spartacus https://old.wordsbyapro.com/language-ninja-language-trends-love-to-hate/#comment-118 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:51:37 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=887#comment-118 Dear Sensei Language Ninja
Thank you for pointing out yet another sign of linguistic decay here. As this was the declining trend of 2015, I wonder what is on the ninjas hit list for 2016? I am being increasingly annoyed by text language, and how people lazily prefer to come across as unintelligent and borderline illiterate, rather than taking the time to write three letters instead of one. What can be done about this? Being a ninja and all, is there some way You could make these people discretely ….umm…”disappear”?

Best regards
Spartacus

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