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To: DustyMoment

Don’t you have better things to complain about? Sentence Structure? Didn’t you get any lately?


14 posted on 12/09/2011 1:41:50 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2 (It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and remove all doubt)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
Don’t you have better things to complain about?

No. Bad writing, ESPECIALLY from a media that complains that bloggers are NOT professional "journalists", is inexcusable. Poor sentence structure, horrible headline writing and incomplete or incomprehensible "reporting" that overlooks, ignores or leaves out important details is what passes for acceptable journalism today.

This is, esentially, all predicated on English "teachers" who either can't teach or don't want to teach so they alter the rules of grammer and accept crappy writing. English is a bad enough language to learn and understand due to the lack of fixed rules of grammer (every rule has an exception, unlike other languages) that make learning English that much more difficult.

When a "profesional" journalist engages in poor sentence structure, his bad example tends to ripple through society and adds to the deterioration of the language to the extent that we have today. This is simply unacceptable. The writer wrote the story poorly and, worse, the editor let it go to print!

18 posted on 12/10/2011 10:40:16 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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