. Spelling propriety is ummm... debatable. I'm in the "English" camp, myself, as I have a bit of an annoyance at American "computer speak" hijacking the World, ferfuxakes! 
I use slang all the time, and, I suspect, am prone to picking up catch-phrases as much as the next person...
Like Bidin~Time, our lovely hostess in this thread, I prefer to use proper English grammar, when writing the language. The lady may have a delightful Appalachian accent, it I would never accuse this gal of being ANYTHING it literate.
There's a point to that last bit. We are a diverse English-speaking Community, here. The thing that unites us is our language, however we SOUND, most of us are able to communicate effectively because the WRITTEN WORD is consistent. Well, mostly....
See what I did there?
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I use slang all the time, and, I suspect, am prone to picking up catch-phrases as much as the next person...
Like Bidin~Time, our lovely hostess in this thread, I prefer to use proper English grammar, when writing the language. The lady may have a delightful Appalachian accent, it I would never accuse this gal of being ANYTHING it literate.
There's a point to that last bit. We are a diverse English-speaking Community, here. The thing that unites us is our language, however we SOUND, most of us are able to communicate effectively because the WRITTEN WORD is consistent. Well, mostly....
See what I did there?
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British acronyms can be meaningless to Americans and vice-versa. I used to have a whole list after my name. Once I had finally retired I decided there was little point in paying the subscriptions to professional bodies that would keep bombarding me with academic papers.
It didn't help that some of those organisations kept changing their acronyms to become more modern.
Some of them have changed more than once since I retired. I sometimes get communications from the new name and wonder why I'm on their list.
My father started work as GPO BM. Both halves are now obsolete. He became a TB; progressed to a T; ST; AIO; IO; AVSO; DVSO; VSO; SVSO...
Only IO still exists. He added many other letters but was miffed that his older brother became an OBE while he was only an ISO. Both of those: Officer of the British Empire and Imperial Service Order refer to the Empire which no longer exists.
FYPYW.
*spits* Why, back in my day we didn't have emojis! A colon and a capital D was good enough!
Do you want to read a scathing take down on the use of language of the smartest guy in every room that he walks into?
https://spectator.org/has-obamas-would-be-publisher-read-breaking-the-war-mentality/
