10-28-2017, 09:40 PM
some say, til. others ‘til. and still others, till. but, you know, it’s all subjective, un it? language is an organic beast, always changing and evolving, never stopped, always moving on. no one really pays attention to the rules, anyway. we’re all talking gibberish, aren’t we? what was that? i don’t know, you figure it out? glomphy glomphy homfie hoo.
but, still, till is definitely correct, though, isn’t it. i mean, it just is. in fact, you can throw all the other words out, all of them, from every language ever spoken on planet earth; just throw them all away and replace them with... well, whatever you like, really—old car tires and bottle tops, for all i care—and yet, till will remain the only true objectively correct word in the history of language. actually, its correctness as a word goes beyond language. it’s an a priori truth. it’s a universal truth. it’s a platonic form of whatever the fuck it is. god never said “let there be light” he said “let there be Till!” and he saw that it was not only good, but that it was perfectly correct.
the only, ONLY, reason anyone uses ‘til (or til) after being shown their error, is because of their sheer indignation at being corrected—often people who are invested in language, personally... though rarely professionally.
i have yet to hear a single valid reason for not using the entirely self-contained word till in favour of the completely pointless abbreviation of the word until. they range from etymological arguments from first causes to the absurd “i just like the sound of ‘til more than till. it’s snappier”.
and to all those arguments i say, suck it up, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you know you’re wrong, now let’s all move on with our lives.
but, still, till is definitely correct, though, isn’t it. i mean, it just is. in fact, you can throw all the other words out, all of them, from every language ever spoken on planet earth; just throw them all away and replace them with... well, whatever you like, really—old car tires and bottle tops, for all i care—and yet, till will remain the only true objectively correct word in the history of language. actually, its correctness as a word goes beyond language. it’s an a priori truth. it’s a universal truth. it’s a platonic form of whatever the fuck it is. god never said “let there be light” he said “let there be Till!” and he saw that it was not only good, but that it was perfectly correct.
the only, ONLY, reason anyone uses ‘til (or til) after being shown their error, is because of their sheer indignation at being corrected—often people who are invested in language, personally... though rarely professionally.
i have yet to hear a single valid reason for not using the entirely self-contained word till in favour of the completely pointless abbreviation of the word until. they range from etymological arguments from first causes to the absurd “i just like the sound of ‘til more than till. it’s snappier”.
and to all those arguments i say, suck it up, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you know you’re wrong, now let’s all move on with our lives.
