National Grammar Day


I love reading other peoples' inciteful commentary referencing the unproper usage of language expecially if it centers around some of the things which also tend to bother myself when I am reading things which are written or things spoken by voice in a poor fashion.

There are many writers and speakers, who only tend to utilize the weakest sentances and words; irregardless of the fact that they are just watering down the affect that there words have on the people that are reading that which they have written or hearing that which they say.

A long time and well reknown critic of carless writing and talking, this has and always will bother me. I often wonder if the English language will ever survive in tack.

The thing is, is that oftentimes these are educated individuals, they are someone who definately should not have any excuse of incriminating the mother tongue like they do and, yet there intercourse is literally sprinkled with the following, to name a few; bad punctuating, mispellings, words used wrong, words which are not words, informal slang-type language, redundance, needlessly repetitious, running on, comma slices, more cliches than you can shake a stick at, similies as weak as water, ect, you name it they have used it. Also too, sentence fragments.

The problems are enumerous. So much writing that might of been quality work is degradated by careles ignorancy. The worst is when a writer takes it upon themself to becry the poor usage of language, as if they are not in the least bit guilty of any sin!!!

Oh the alliteracy (sp?) of it all!!!!!!

Well their's my 2 sense worth. Hopefully after reading this you can make your own writing stand up in the crowd and shine like sunshine thru the window.

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