A few days ago I noted that the Mystic River Press featured this front page (very large type) headline:
RTM tries new tact on budget
Apparently the disease is spreading. Today I saw this, in an article about the demise of unlimited data plans, at a computer blog called EverythingICafe:
AT&T has taken a different tact. They set limits on unlimited plans. Once a customer hits those limits, they are throttled. There is little to no advantage to having an unlimited data plan on AT&T at this point.
This shook my faith in my own mental dictionary a bit, so I resorted to the Oxford Dictionary of English, which restored my faith, though I suppose there are some who might argue that the English have no business telling us Americans what words mean.
The English language is under assault from two directions. On the right, the Orwellians, determined to manipulate language in service to their ideology, and from all other directions, the lazies, who have no agenda, other than the preservation of their right to know no dictionary. To be fair, the blogger may simply have been a victim of the tyrannical spelling checker now incorporated into the Mac operating system.
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