Given time words will be litle more than monosylabbic utterances with
their attndant meangs being little more than guesswork at best. such is
the slow. gradual shift towards orwells newspeak where words have
meanings far removed from that which was originally ascribed to them.
On 01/08/2016 16:55, CJ &AA MAY wrote:
I receive official letters with glaring mistakes that my former
employers would have been horrified about and would never have let go
out.
It’s interesting how the spelling of words and grammar has changed
during my lifetime. When I was at school, words like realise would use
a z rather than an s but now you rarely see words which use the letter z.
Also the style in which letters go out has changed dramatically, most
just indicating a paragraph by using an extra line rather than
indenting the line.
Whilst we’re talking about paragraphs, my Creative Tutor tells me that
MS Word offers me a choice of paragraph styles and the one she’d
prefer me to use is where the first line in the piece is against the
lefthand margin but all subsequent paragraphs should have a blank line
and be indented. I’ve looked at the paragraph options but can’t
identify the style she is talking about. Does anyone else know?
Alison
