The decline in English majors mirrors the decline in grammatical and rhetorical skills in general. Soon we’ll be reduced to grunting and pointing, with an occasional f-bomb thrown in for emphasis.
“The decline in English majors mirrors the decline in grammatical and rhetorical skills in general. Soon we’ll be reduced to grunting and pointing, with an occasional f-bomb thrown in for emphasis.”
As things are, by definition, no idea worth investigating can exist if it cannot be expressed in a PowerPoint.
Not a nice way to talk about David Hogg!!!
My daughter parlayed her 4-year English degree into a law degree. Been a lawyer now for several years. She’s often the go-to person in her office for proofreading other’s work (as a favor). Heck...I even try to send grammatically correct text messages to her because I fear the red ink...but she takes it easy on this old man.
I agree. However, I think a significant reason is that there are so many words we're not allowed to use and concepts we're not allowed to consider. There are also whole new categories of deranged garble, such as "gender."
We were trying to sort out, yesterday, whether a "transgender woman" is the same thing as a " 'transgender' woman."
Or defecating on someone’s grave. That’s about the right for what an animal can do.