To point out that it's "etc" not "ect"

[SourdoughSally]

I see this multiple times a day and it makes me wonder if people pronounce it "ekt" when they speak.

@BleedinglyObvious why be so rude? Saying “yawn” about someone’s post is much worse than a black American who happens to say aks because that’s their dialect.

we don’t still speak like Shakespeare do we? Or indeed like in the 1920s? Language evolves and is influenced by other languages and cultures.

I think you need to be less judgemental and more mindful that there is a wide range of people on this site who have different levels of education and multiple disabilities and shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable by others repeatedly feeling the need to correct them. Aslong as what the op is writing is understandable thats enough. I missed a significant amount of education due to being a really sick child and I shouldn't be made to feel excluded from this site because of it.

@arlequin , 'Yawn' because it is boring.

much worse than a black American who happens to say aks because that’s their dialect. That is dialect and a separate issue.

we don’t still speak like Shakespeare do we? Or indeed like in the 1920s?
Heard it all before and it wasn't particularly interesting the first time.
Language evolves and is influenced by other languages and cultures.
Yes but it's used as an excuse for sloppy English.

It's never the poster's fault is it? It's a learning or linguistic condition, it's because their first language isn't English, it's the teachers, it's language evolution... but never because the poster can't be bothered to write clearly.

I tend not to comment on spelling and grammar errors because they happen. The OP might be distressed, at the end of her tether, might be dyslexic or whatever. I will if it's a typo and it's a funny one.

It's sad that we see sloppy English so much that 'ect', 'bare with me', 'baring in mind', 'could of', 'loose weight', 'there children', 'councilling' and so on are so common that we are in danger of not realising they're incorrect.
It's not evolution it's dumbing down.

@BleedinglyObviousbut that’s not what the article says - it’s precisely about aks vs ask

@SourdoughSally can I just point out that it's "etc." not "etc"...

@BleedinglyObviousso I’m confused which part of my post you’re saying yawn to as dialect was precisely what I was discussing

@arlequin , the issues discussed in the article are separate to this thread and I don't wish to discuss it on here because it would derail the thread.

The 'Yawn' was about 'it’s also a natural language evolution. Like asterisk vs asterix'.

Asterix for asterisk is not language evolution.