“Middle English demonstrates
the need for standardized spelling and usage because during that period,
there was a significant lack of consistent spelling across different regions
and writers, with the same words often spelled multiple ways, making reading
and understanding written text challenging due to the lack of a set standard. This
issue was largely resolved with the introduction of printing, which helped
solidify consistent spellings in modern English.” Asking people to try to use they’re,
there, and their correctly is not nit-picking or one-upmanship,
but an attempt to maintain readability. Otherwise, in five hundred years we
could be back to this.
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