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Well yes. I think we have a winner folks!

-snort-

On April 15th you may feel as though you've been "serviced."

I feel better all over than I do anywhere else.

I feel more like I do now than I did a while ago.

Waxing poetical and speaking straightly, I say harvest though I am a hunter and not a farmer, after game and not grain with my Modern Sporting Rifle I am not afraid to say, is just like the autoloaders we used in an earlier day.

It is? It wasn't when I learned it in grade school. People and dictionaries are too PC today to list anything as "improper." That's the real problem - "PC!"

Actually the translation would be Spanish Royal Academy, it was founded in the 1700s... not quite the middle ages
A few of my ancestors, including my grandfather were members. Basically their goal is that the Spanish language, despite contemporary adaptions to the needs of the people does not lose (single "o" here!) its true basis.
There is another association which translates to Association of Spanish Language Academies. In any case as Jorge says, they validate and approve what is official and what it not. They do include a bunch of anglicisms which to be correct require a spanish phonetic spelling.
English rules can be whimsical, and what is proper or not depends on use.
Isn't it amazingal?

There once was a lass internetical
who fancied herself poetical.
She penned her prose
while picking her nose,
and knowledge proved quite hypothetical.

Adaptation



Gotcha!

Hmmph! and even though english is my second language I am quite the spelling control freak.
Oh well,
I'll say manure occurs since it is more elegantical

"Poetical" is a real word?

I am skeptical.

Quite admiracal, or something.

This all gets me right in the ventricle.

+1

And those who use metamorphosized have metamorphosed into something other than English speakers.

Yes, it seems, according to some sources, metamorphosized is another one of those "non-standard" wirds (typo intentional this time!)

I always relied on the Concise Oxford, until I started writing for a wider audience. I favour colloquial phrasing these daze, 'cause that's what most people sorta understand. One has to keep up with the times.

Except for what I do at work, I've tossed the dictionaries in favour of the fashionable "muttonhead" style.

The English speaking world used to laugh at malaprops, Goldwynisms and other misspoken words or phrases, but...
More and more, these aberrations are being used in mainstream writing. English is indeed a living language. The Internets and the (T)urban Dictionary aren't helping. In fact, they kilt it dead.

I have found the UD useful though when deciphering some of my student's youthspeak. What will come as English evolves More(ly)?

I'm not sure, but I'd stay on the horse even if the 'chute failed to deploy.

You're really twisted, Dan. I like that.

Some are full and some, half.

Here's a new word for you:

Steve inspires me.

He's diabolical and antithetical.

Ella