I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life reading on the Web and running several Web sites and always taken pride in my posts being readable, even if snobbish in their correct English.
This morning, while posting to Facebook, I noted that I had mixed up “their” for “there” in my sentence. This is something I would NEVER have done a few years ago. Then I started going through other posts by different friends and note that almost ALL of them consistently screw up “there”, “they’re”, and “their”. Most screw up its and it’s as well, so I begin to ponder whether the screwing up is contagious.
One can only wonder if I graduated 20+ years ago and see this issue, what must the public school system (which is now being continuously considered more as a babysitting service than teaching these days) be like?
How long before the movie “Idiocracy” becomes real, the
Presidency is ruled by a guy named “Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho”, law degrees come from CostCo, and we can all “Enjoy our Big Ass Fries!, copyright Carl’s Jr“??
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quantumevil // May 26, 2009 at 10:19 am |
After reading this last night, I think its significant to note that I had the choice of watching either a 2 hour documentary about the discovery of a fossil that could have been one of the first primates, and a “Land of the Lost” marathon…. I chose…Poorly.
(Sleestaks Rule).
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