Cor what a fantastic word. I've written it down so that I can put it to further use when I'm teaching my 'coded' groups of kids. I never came across this word once in my degree not did my partner and they both included English!
I agree with both sides a little though because bad spelling and grammar really, really gets my goat especially when it's on public signs and so on. What I really don't like is when you commission a professional to do some work for you and when they send you the proof it's full of spelling mistakes - that's just wrong. For eg when we put our house on the market, the estate agents version of the house details was so badly spelled and so grammatically incorrect, I couldn't just edit it, I had to literally re-write it. When I complained she tried to say it was the typists fault but typists don't change layout. Fuming I was! And just yesterday I paid a young designer to send her finished poster design she had done for me to the printer (she was going on a cruise and didn't have time to allow me to proof it), picked 100 posters and 500 flyers up from the printers and a glaring, whopping spelling mistake right in the middle of the top line! Ritious instead of riotous! Fuming again, especially as she's taken off now and I have no way of getting hold of her.
But, I also think that new language use is exciting. Languages do evolve and the innovative ways young people use language is fresh and interesting. There's room for it I think. What is proper English anyway? I think we should all go back to lobbing some good old Shakespearian insults about, that would make life very colourful! You slack jawed, festering pussboil!
