Text Messaging in Complete Sentences

The text message is a brilliant addition to technological communication. It’s a quick and easy way to communicate short bits of information to people with minimal interruption. However, the text message is responsible for exponentially accelerating the decline of the English language into gibberish and smiley face symbols. Email has done its part to initiate [...]

Posted at 2:38 am on June 26, 2007 | leave a comment | Filed Under: grammar, rants, technology | read on

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Welcome to the S.P.U.E. blog – a site of pejorative rants and helpful suggestions from the Society for the Proper Use of English. The Society for the Proper Use of English (S.P.U.E.) is an organization dedicated to slowing the plummet of the English language into unintelligible gibberish thanks to the advances of technology and the general laziness of English speakers everywhere.

S.P.U.E. was founded in memory of Richard “The Man Who Knows Everything” Swett, a man with extraordinarily tidy grammar and an exceedingly large vocabulary.

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