Recently, I have noticed a great horror with the youth of today. This horror, a travesty against the history of mankind travels at break-neck speeds across society, like a plague, a virus. It infects people, concentrating on those of lower or sub-standard education. It knows no race, colour, gender or religion. It only knows one thing, ignorance. This plague I speak of is none other than bad grammar.

The plague infects people’s brains, making them spell words incorrectly, not to mention lumpng the person’s thoughts into one, almost unintelligible conversation block. The concept of take one thought to completion before starting the next has eluded the youth of today. Using simple punctuation, or even breaking things down to paragraphs seems to be a long lost art, corroded away by digital ones and zeros.

I have noticed this new trend not so long ago, and with each passing day it gets noticeably worse. People lump all their thoughts in a chaotic, non-uniform manner, making it more and more difficult to understand what is said, let alone read it without pullng your own eyeballs out. The madness needs to stop. When you complete a thought, that indicates the conclusion of one paragraph so the next may begin.

I know the temptation to use netspeak like LOL, ROTF, WTF, RTFM, and so on, but please, it’s not necessary to use these things all the time, nor is it acceptable to only use netspeak. Would it kill you to write out “Dude, that was so funny I nearly wet my pants.” rather than LOL all the time? English society was not built upon lazy people, speaking the bare minimum that could be construed as English. No, I say. They spoke English.

I suggest before you get completely brain dead with this horrid pseudo-englsh, read this book. Learn how to compose proper arguments and articulate them in a well thought out and professional manner. Stop telling us about four different points in the same block of sentences (that’s called a paragraph), turn on your spell check, and write meaningful stuff, not mindless drvel.

Only you can prevent the loss of the English language.

-DualityShift
XBLR forum member.
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