Professor Bartholomew Barrington III, Esq.

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Entry 1: The Orthographic Abyss

Author: Professor Bartholomew Barrington III, Esq.

The English language—a vast, nuanced tapestry woven over millennia—is currently being fed into a digital woodchipper by a man who unironically titles himself the "King of the Morons" (Shane). In this preliminary case study, I shall examine the catastrophic degradation of basic phonetics and syntax within his immediate circle.

We must first analyze the subject's inability to differentiate between "their" and "there," and his baffling, almost avant-garde insistence on spelling "second" with an apostrophe ("secon'd"). Is this the result of a profound neurological defect, or simply a staggering commitment to ignorance? The latter seems most plausible when one considers the horrifying variables introduced by his associates.

Take "FilipTheIdiot," a self-proclaimed chemist who spells "bored" as "bord," "bucket" as "ubcket," and recently suggested ingesting hydrochloric acid as a viable health treatment. Then we have "hamdpac," a creature who believes "spinach" is spelled "spinnage" and claims his complete lack of punctuation is due to "lingual usage being uncommon" in his programming.

When observing these subjects in their natural habitat (the Thunderstep Gaming server), one is forced to conclude that it is not merely a community, but an active quarantine zone for the linguistically damned. I find myself shouting into an abyss that doesn't even know how to spell 'abyss'.