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RichieB
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Arizona
 
2006-04-24, 22:33

[VENT] I am amazed at how lax our society has become on accepting a more and more vulgar form of English as the norm. Slang is everywhere. It is no surprise to hear someone talk ONLY in cliches. What happened to good language skills? What happened to being proud about the command of a language? What happened to our writing skills? Have you seen a typical kid's handwriting lately? Atrocious. Penmanship is a lost art. I challenge ANY teen to write me in his/her own hand (not on a computer) a 1 page essay without a single spelling and/or grammatical error. He/She would fail that test miserably.

It is absolutely SHAMEFUL, the level to which we have stooped.

The straw that broke this camel's back was this thread.

Mac Donald, please listen to me, in the interest of proper English, when I say this:

One should NEVER pluralize ANYTHING using an apostrophe. Apostrophes are meant to denote POSSESSIVE attributes.

No, being a lawyer does not preclude you from making spelling errors.

Thank you all, for listening to my vent. [/VENT]

Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.
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