Is twitter changing English?

[Wilson Gray]

There were horse operas in the 1630's and 1640's?! Or was there some
other method by which the peasantry were exposed to this usage?

-Wilson

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 11/18/2009 05:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>"Invite" for "invitation" has been around at least since the horse
>>operas of the '30's and '40's. I've used it myself for years,
>>jokingly. I've never considered it to be "proper" English. However, it
>>seems to me, as also to Tom, that this word is occurring more and more
>>in place of "invitation", at least in spoken English.
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> The 1630s and '40s, Wilson?  "Invite" with the
> sense "an invitation" dates from 1659 H.
> L'ESTRANGE Alliance Div. Off. 326 Bishop
> Cranmer..gives him an earnest invite to
> England.  While that quotation is perhaps more
> "the act of inviting", the next fits "an
> invitation" darn well -- 1778 F. BURNEY Diary
> (1842) I. 105 Everybody bowed and accepted the
> invite but me..for I have no intention of
> snapping at invites from the eminent.
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> Joel
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>>-Wilson
>>
>>On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I've just seen another "I'll send you an
>> invite" (instead of invitation).  Its 3 times
>> in a row I've seen this recently.  I didn't
>> know it was so common.  It was a twitter
>> related item, from a bulk mailing.  It goes to a lot of people.
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>> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> > see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>> >> Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>> >>> A friend has asked me if there are any studies on whether, and if so
>> >>> how, Tweeter and other limited-message media have affected other
>> >>> channels of English, spoken or written. Simple opinions are not
>> >>> unwelcome also.
>> >>
>> >> Correction: Twitter.
>> >>
>> >> I haven't seen Twitter terms showing up anywhere else online, except in
>> >> reference to Twitter. I've seen text-messaging abbreviations on Usenet
>> >> and in mailing lists, but don't recall which ones.
>> >>
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>>--
>>-Wilson
>>­­­
>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"­­a strange complaint to
>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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