"Prolly" is NOT a word.
Do any of you get as annoyed as I do when you see someone write "prolly" instead of "probably"? Or "Wendsday" instead of "Wednesday"? Or the wrong forms of "your", "you're", "there", "their," and "they're"? But worst of all, do you hate it when people write out "I [b]could[/b] care less" instead of "I [b]couldn't[/b] care less"?
I mean, I know people talk about this a lot, but it's seriously not hard to spell words you should have known by third grade, or to write out idioms correctly. Heck, that's not even an idiom and people spell it wrong!
Anyway, sorry for the rant thread.
November 29, 2010
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yeah, i'd prolly get annoyed!
And "I could care less is correct"
Let's say there's a situation where someone just gave me the latest gossip. Amazing.
I cared. But I say "I could care less" because obviously, I [i]could[/i] care less
Eh, it's pretty ironic considering I am doing a paper on textspeak and how it is a natural change in our language.
As much as I hate it, we should be glad there are boundaries in formal contexts that prevent its use.
It's a colloquial term used in speech to convey the word "probably" quickly, and it has transferred into text mediums now.
If you actually studied English Language you learn to stop complaining about things like this. Remember, there is no such thing as "bad" english and "bad" grammar, there are only deviations from standard English.
There is nothing wrong with the word "prolly" and as long as people continue to understand what it means, it will have a use in both speech and text.
Prolly is prolly not a word, but I'll prolly use it anyways.
I agree with everything you said except for "prolly".
I have no problems with it, it's really just people being lazy.
I tend to say "probs" when I don't have to be formal.
People who use "supposably" instead of "supposedly" annoy me though.
prolly is a short?