Darn. I was supposed to text in html?.
I put a lot of time in that too. Was on a roll.
Doing it again with just text ...
Traditionalists are suffering from future shock. It stemmed from our unique past. The USA had no nobility while the rest of the world jeered at us for our rustic culture.
So we overcompensated with strict regimentation of grammar and writing protocol. Now the Brits laugh at our stuffy strict rules and tease us in subtle ways.
I don’t know when this august forum will catch up with Twitter in creative communication. Serious scholars have way too much negative pavlovian conditioning to feel comfortable around creative expression.
I suppose people will simply be driven to nothing but sound based communication and turn illiterate.
That theory of correct grammar sounds like utter BS to me, dude. You can tell people’s education from how they write, yes, the spoken word is different, more fluid, but writing rules need to be universal for the written word to be understood.
I have McGuffey’s Eclectic Reading Series, through 4th grade, circa 1900.
Most of today’s English teachers likely couldn’t handle the structures, rules and prose that fourth graders were taught and tested on in the late 1800’s into the 1900’s (when an eighth grade education was all many ever got, and they led quite productive lives).
KWIM? L8r.