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To: FreedomStar3028
It’s not that we can’t write anymore, the language is changing into a kind of english shorthand.

No, the author's right. I can't believe how degraded written English has become over the last decade or so. This website is a prime example. It's actually becoming hard to find two consecutive posts with no spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors in them.

The language isn't changing, but the quality of instruction and standards are.

31 posted on 02/21/2014 5:52:00 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
This website is a prime example. It's actually becoming hard to find two consecutive posts with no spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors in them.

Don't forget the utter absence of any warranted paragraphs (sometimes perhaps because they do not know any html). Yet as this forum is rather informal, I often do not proof read as I should before I post, and usually use lower case "i" for myself to save time. I also think grammar rules should have some flexibility.

109 posted on 02/21/2014 7:58:57 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Windflier
It's actually becoming hard to find two consecutive posts with no spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors in them.

You are right, of course. Maybe those of us who can't help picking up these glaring errors should adopt a whole different mindset. There's a good chance that said posters may be more caring, more giving, more productive, etc. than the grammar police.

Anyway, I don't mean to preach---it also rubs me the wrong way!

151 posted on 02/21/2014 10:38:36 PM PST by IIntense
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