Grammatical decline is rampant across all platforms. Whereas a decade ago it was a head shaking tsk tsk delight to find the rare spelling or syntax fuck up in articles of self aggrandized & anointed Papers Of Record (NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, et al.), today it's just a Tuesday. Bots? Ignorance? Societal decline in G? Race to get copy out immediately, editing be damned? If one can no longer be bothered with even remembering loved ones phone numbers cuz da phone be 'memberin' dat shit, then why burden ones gray matter with the knowledge of the proper placement of dots, dashes or squiggly little marks? Should one display the temerity to call it out, one'll be accused of being a Fancy Pants Book Learnin' College Boy Faggot by double digit IQ Whites and a Privileged Racist Imperialist Toxic White Male Supreme by browns and green haired fat girls.
The rush to the least common denominator.
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.
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.
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.
If someone has atrocious spelling, grammar word choice, punctuation, capitalization, etc., then I don't want to associate with them really. Some people may not like it, but you can tell a lot about a person's intelligence and the overall effort they put into things by whether they take the time to write and converse correctly.
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