by Gerry Leopard

Created on: August 15, 2007

I've helt my tounge long enough. I've long been concerened about this issue and I happen to run across an articel the other day that serviced to crystallize my opinion on a "matter of grate social and political import".

First, a quote: "In the forward-thinking Internet environment, where user preference and societal norms drive innovation, carefully constructed sentences are starting to disappear as users evolve, becoming accustomed to one another's abbreviations and time constraints, grammar continues to deteriorate"

Folks I must tell you'll at the rissk of being shunned and ostroacized, the internet communitie, inclusive of the wild and wacky groop here at EDU need proffessional help. I'm basically proposing that basically anyone who sines up for an email account, with any ISP any-where basically be required taking a basic skills test aimed at their ability to string words together in a fashion that at least bares at least a basic resemblance to a basic sentence. Futhermore, they should be required to spell 5 words at least correctly that one sylable exceed.

I suppose that under some circumstancial , limited use of short-handedness is acceptable. But really, really, does it really, really take more time to type kewl than dose to type cool. Actually its' more dificult and harder to type cool because of the fact that the word kewl does not have too o's in it like the word cool dose and it's easier to just type two o's than it is the ew and the ew is harder and takes longer. I guess people juts think it's cooler to type kewl.

To me the conceptuality is clear. Clear writing is aids clear reasoning. The English language is chocked full of nuance. The shaids of grey are their for a reason. Say what you mean and mean to say what you say. In additionally, just ask yourselves if you would buy some things from a web-sight where all the product specifications and stuff was used abbreviations you don't not understand. Of course you wooden.

I also hate it when people try to get cute and say things like "hope 2 meet u 4 coffee later 2day". Is that lazified or what is it if it ain't. You wouldn't write that way IRL so why'se it o.k. 2 do it OL or in e-mail? My God, its' as if we never had ever herd of spellcheker. It just seems like lazyness 2 me. And we all know how I feel about bein lazy and how I don't think its' a good thing because it makes you not do things you shud be doing and don't get done becasue your lazy.

So tipers everywhere'sKleen up your act. You may only have a 4th Graid edumacation but ya don't half to broadcast it to everybody by showing that you thing grammar is yore daddy's momma.

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