I actually looked up whether “snowblowed” was a word. There is no true consensus. Urban dictionary’s definition is a little different than the message I was trying to convey so that was no help. Altho it does sound intriguing (the one that does not involve cocaine). I figured everyone would get the point either way.
All human written languages are subordinate to the spoken language, with the exception of constructed languages like for software programming. In the convoluted uh mismashed uh, flexible language that is English, even when a word is supposedly misspelled, if it can still convey the sounds of the spoken word, then it can likely be understood. And that’s the ultimate goal of a language: to convey thoughts to others.
I personally do not subscribe to the notion of prescriptivism, which believes that the dictionary is the final authority of words in English. However, the dictionary does serve as a reference, so people who heard the word “ornithology” can look up what it means.
I actually looked up whether “snowblowed” was a word. There is no true consensus. Urban dictionary’s definition is a little different than the message I was trying to convey so that was no help. Altho it does sound intriguing (the one that does not involve cocaine). I figured everyone would get the point either way.
Altho?
Presumably, a shorter version of ‘although’.
Ever seen tho’ in place of though?
All human written languages are subordinate to the spoken language, with the exception of constructed languages like for software programming. In the
convoluteduhmismasheduh, flexible language that is English, even when a word is supposedly misspelled, if it can still convey the sounds of the spoken word, then it can likely be understood. And that’s the ultimate goal of a language: to convey thoughts to others.I personally do not subscribe to the notion of prescriptivism, which believes that the dictionary is the final authority of words in English. However, the dictionary does serve as a reference, so people who heard the word “ornithology” can look up what it means.
TL;DR: humans have error correction capabilities