This post is lovingly dedicated to Because Internet - linguist Gretchen McCulloch's egalitarian examination of how the internet has opened up informal language. 

It's the perfect response to my previous blog ("edited!").

McCulloch: "But now that we can think of language like the internet, it's clear that there is space for innovation, space for many Englishes and many other languages besides, space…

 The computer is perfect. In its binary way. Not perfect like a sea shell is perfect. By depending on our super-fast ultra-coded computers as they speed us through the new lingo of our age, they help make us superficially perfect.

It's yogic cool to transcend the mind. Critical thought cuts like a knife without providing all the tape and glue and gels necessary to unify. But how wise is it to deny the critical mind in a constant effort to always be nice?

Professionals can…

Words will be typed

Hand with pen or fingers tappin

To yourself you are hyped

The brains between 2 ears 

Stereotyped

If you must

Tap ting tinny tiny thing

Prove to yourself you are free

Sing "I am free"

And don't listen

Remember how this now was all about the sad-eyed easy…

I’m a cotton seed sower, the righteous whistle blower

the stand-in or stunt man for the star

I get down on all fours when I’m scrubbing your floors 

I rub the shine right into your car

I put no one above you for as long as I love you

and that’s as long as the oceans will…