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A linguistic change is happening in the English language. We're adding a new class of word, the "referent case", which is signified by a # before the word. The referent case shows the topic of a sentence, just like how the nominative case shows the actor of a verb, etc. We've already added the vocative case to English with the @ grammatical marking.
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and it will take another 20 years before we realize that in most cases we don't really need upper case letters. now burn me for heresy.
Forgive the crudeness of the example, but there's a huge difference between the following two sentences: I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse. i had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/30/france-bids-adieu-to-the...
A linguistic change is happening in the English language. We're adding a new class of word, the "referent case", which is signified by a # before the word. The referent case shows the topic of a sentence, just like how the nominative case shows the actor of a verb, etc. We've already added the vocative case to English with the @ grammatical marking.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
and it will take another 20 years before we realize that in most cases we don't really need upper case letters. now burn me for heresy.
Forgive the crudeness of the example, but there's a huge difference between the following two sentences: I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse. i had to help my uncle jack off a horse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...
While it makes logical sense I can't help but be saddened by the further misuse of hash tagging by the clueless.
what's the proper use? I'm one of the clueless
As someone who created a startup around a hashtags search engine (1), I'm very glad of this development from a business point of view - the more hashtags are used, the better. As I already wrote (2), though, I'm not sure if this is a great move for Facebook in the long run. Facebook owns the incredibly compelling core expectation of "easily sharing with friends and family through the Internet". But, for obvious reaso…
> can you be both the place where people connect with their closest connections, and where public discourse goes on? This remains to be seen. They have been working on it just in a really crash, burn and restart process way. Mark Zuckerberg once went through two options for public discourse * create a Facebook fan page * open his personal profile to public The first attempt was silently killed (from what I can see, t…
Personally, I connected to a lot of people of facebook for political discussions, and in the end that detracted a lot from the effectiveness of FB as a mean to stay connected with my family and closer friends...
A linguistic change is happening in the English language. We're adding a new class of word, the "referent case", which is signified by a # before the word. The referent case shows the topic of a sentence, just like how the nominative case shows the actor of a verb, etc. We've already added the vocative case to English with the @ grammatical marking.
and it will take another 20 years before we realize that in most cases we don't really need upper case letters. now burn me for heresy.