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Do people here use spell check, Oxford commas, or know how apostrophes work?

Genuinely curious; multiple front-page posts have glaring errors that anyone with a fifth-grade education should have seen.

It is difficult to understand someone's position when they don't take the time to explain it clearly. And if you don't want to take time to state your argument coherently, do you really expect the rest of us to take time sorting through your word vomit to try and see your point?

Or is it okay to speak like joggers here?

-=Edit=- Okay, got it. My question has been answered. Thank you.

Genuinely curious; multiple front-page posts have glaring errors that anyone with a fifth-grade education should have seen. It is difficult to understand someone's position when they don't take the time to explain it clearly. And if *you* don't want to take time to state your argument coherently, do you really expect the rest of us to take time sorting through your word vomit to try and see your point? Or is it okay to speak like joggers here? -=Edit=- Okay, got it. My question has been answered. Thank you.

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I am the editor of a community newsletter and frequently include historical newspaper articles about our town. The typos and misspellings in some of these old newspapers are horrendous. Certainly, the big newspapers-of-record are much better with their typos but damn, some of the old Texas articles are so bad.

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Errors and typos notwithstanding, I love combing through old dailies and periodicals. I delight at the leveled up vocabulary of our forebears while marveling at the rapidity of the linguistic loss. The loathesome Newspeak and denuded expression of thought of The Twatterari are vile fucking anathema.

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Absolutely the modern language gymnastics are appalling. I'm just saying that there are loads of typos in the old papers. It makes sense given the technology available and speed at which a newspaper had to be printed.

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Sounds like a fun gig! Do you mine microfiche archives or has most of the old stuff been archived online at this point?

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