They got that right.
I'm a professional writer and as the years go by more and more people think I'm some kind of genius for being able to put words to paper, that evoke feelings and emotions or biting satire that makes people think. I suspect that in my parents' generation I would have been just an average writer.
Dumber and dumber...I fear for our nation's future.
The future is here. Biting satire? Nowadays anyone who can write a coherent paragraph is a genius. My mother was an average writer in her day, graduating from college in the sixties. By today's standards she can walk on water.
My MS Word grammar checker says that I should change "effect" to "affect" in the following sentence: "The car's brakes had no effect whatsoever." Which is correct? Effect? Or affect?
I know what you mean. I always thought I was a terrible writer. Now everybody tells me I'm a really good writer. Now, I'm not sure if I'm getting better or if everybody else is getting worse. I didn't think that was possible.
You ever read excerpts from journals, letters, and personal correspondece from Civil War soldiers? The 'common man' knew how to write very well and very movingly, with references that would be way above the head of even the modern most elitist readers.
RO, AWK
...couldn't resist... ;-)