Although it doesn’t bode well for written English given the rampant spreading of phonetic English used by teens for messaging with phones and internet.

When I first watched the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice I wondered if the rigid requirements of the language as spoken by their class in their time forced them to consider their words more carefully, and so also forced them to consider their ideas more carefully. I presume that’s what Orwell was getting at.

On topic: Visual Studio, with its auto-completion and excellent debugging and tracing tools, is turning me into a lazy programmer. “Wonder if this’ll work?” I say, as I press F5.