Saturday 19 May 2012

Hello!

I'm an English teacher, so naturally, I'm concerned with the use of grammar within a sentence.  It's my job. 
However, with the growth of social media, I am beginning to think that the use of correct grammar and punctuation is redundant.

"It's only Facebook, so I don't need to write correctly."
The above statement makes no sense to me.
So, because it's 'only Facebook', one should spell their name incorrectly, because it doesn't matter?

People have become so used to writing incorrectly, I wonder if people actually know.
It is actually very frustrating to see adults inserting apostrophes all willy nilly. 
They use the excuse of it being 'only Facebook', however that redundant apostrophe has added just a tad more time to their typing.  The second it took to include that apostrophe, could have been used for something else.   Maybe it could have been used to have a quick skim read of what was about to be posted.

So, I will be using this blog as a place to rant about the incorrect use of grammar and punctuation...and possibly spelling.  Although, that doesn't bother me too much.

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