I before E except after C

[The Man who was Thursday]

Amphion

Ezra Pound

The preposition thing isn't really invented. Preposition = prae positum = placed before. If it's not placed before another word, it can't be a preposition. :/

Yes, actually, it is. It was invented to make English more like Latin. Unless you think that this:

Overzealous grammarians are people up with whom I will not put

is more natural than:

Overzealous grammarians are people whom I will not put up with.

It's like the infinitives thing. In Latin, infinitives are impossible to split, hence, they decided, English infinitives shall not be split. Which is utter garbage.

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It has often been said that English has no rules, only lists of exceptions.

So if you're with that, I take it you're not one of the people who is avidly against chatspeak?  

[Amphion]

Ezra Pound

So if you're with that, I take it you're not one of the people who is avidly against chatspeak?

Well...Let's put it this way: It annoys the hell out of me, but there's generally not much that I can do about it besides going into a glazed-over, shock-induced stupor. But woe betide should anyone ask me to proofread something....  

[The Man who was Thursday]

Amphion

Ezra Pound

So if you're with that, I take it you're not one of the people who is avidly against chatspeak?

Well...Let's put it this way: It annoys the hell out of me, but there's generally not much that I can do about it besides going into a glazed-over, shock-induced stupor. But woe betide should anyone ask me to proofread something....

That's ridiculous. You don't care about dangling prepositions, but other so-called abominations to English are totally fine!

Ehh.