> I'm sorely tempted to state a few of my own especially-annoying
> subliteracies. Their use could be considered almost a consensus,
> constituting some of the earmarks of a Popular Dialect developing in our
> midst. Do we want another spinoff from Qalam devoted primarily to
> linguistics?

How would it differ from http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.lang ?

There are a great many _focused_ linguistics groups.

However, I think these subliteracies are way-off topic.

Richard.