Dropping an E

Great Mysteries of the Internet Universe #326: why do web and social media applications insist on deliberately spelling their names incorrectly? No wundr ver kidz today carnt spill propr like wot we cud wen we woz yung. In particular, I cite those that think it’s somehow clever to omit the final ‘e’ from their titles. It’s not big, and it’s not clevr. I mean, clever. But never mind the complaints of such a grumpy old man, because having spotted a passing bandwagon and noting the number of geeks clambering on board, An Unreliable Witness now has a Tumblr. Or a Tumbler. Or, as we in the ‘old school’ might call it, a list of links and pictures and videos and stuff that do not merit full posts. This sideline thus leaves me free, in this humble online abode, to continue the obtuse, obfuscated and verbose navel-gazing you have come to know and love, without the interruption of troublesome other destinations that might tempt your mouse cursor away to some distant site at the other end of the internet, where you could watch kitten videos to your heart’s content.