If you click on ‘War Cemeteries and War Memorial Research' and then rest the cursor on 'Remembering Today’, you see a pop-up label in which the second sentence reads: “And maybe add a bit to each of them’s story”. Who writes this stuff? Belville
Well it certainly is as far as social media, email, texts, etc. Especially in the punctuation department. To me there is no excuse for run on sentences, no capitalization and the overuse of slang. For example, dat (that), dem (them), prolly (probably), whatevs (whatever), 2 (to) and the total improper use of to, two and too in addition to there, their and they’re and road, rowed and rode. It’s like hearing fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard when I read modern day hieroglyphics. Mostly the millennials are guilty of this practice, but more and more users of social media of all generations have devolved grammatically it seems. Cursive writing is not taught in most schools any longer. There are some local school boards reintroducing it in the classrooms now at the demands of parents. Hopefully the next thing to be returned to the teaching agenda is the telling of time on a regular clock (the big hand is on the....). Has anyone seen the movie “Idiocracy”? It’s here.
Writing is becoming obsolete. I hardly ever use a pen these days apart from sometimes signing something. Almost everything is done through a keyboard. Even filling in forms is done on line. I can't remember when I last hand wrote a letter to anyone. Messages in Christmas and birthday cards is about all I do now.
If grammar is dead I hope that it is the grammar imposed upon us by the Victorian academics who worked on the principle that English was a Latin language and imposed inappropriate rules upon it - eg split infinitives. Grammar is necessary but one better aligned to the language as it really is.
I've two pet peeves: 1. There's a BBC Newsreader who seems to start most stories with the word 'Now....' 2. People who write 'of' when they mean 'have', for example "he could of done that".
That's to try and appear academic and not like common erks who start with erm or um or well or you see. All methods of buying time.
