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Some of the emails that go round at work are really awful for grammar, punctuation and spelling. They're either not trying at all, or they just don't care. It's like they thought "I need to pass GCSE English so I can get a job, and after that I'll never need to use it ever again."

Having said that though, I'm aware that my grammar/syntax on here hasn't always been tickety-boo either - I know I'm always putting prepositions at the ends of sentences. I do this deliberately if I think that the sentence properly structured sounds a bit too formal. If this is offending anyone then please let me know :).
 
I’m very good at English - at least relatively - but I swear I couldn’t count how many times what I was going to write came out completely wrong during the writing. Posting without proof-reading is also an issue of mine...
 
Tomorrow morning I'll get my radius sawed off by 2mm while being awake and only having local anesthesia. 1 1/2 hour surgery

That's metal as fuck (but I'm scared actually)
 
FTB said:
Tomorrow morning I'll get my radius sawed off by 2mm while being awake and only having local anesthesia. 1 1/2 hour surgery

That's metal as fuck (but I'm scared actually)
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Got to try out the noble art of aerial navigation today. I found my way to the intended airfield and back, without infringing any controlled airspace :cool: made some pretty good landings, too. The last one made the instructor bring a round of applause and the landing was definitely not of the kind that would warrant ironic appluase.

But we had rain showers and flew pretty close to the cloud ceiling. It would not have been a good day for solo navigation ...
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
Some of the emails that go round at work are really awful for grammar, punctuation and spelling. They're either not trying at all, or they just don't care. It's like they thought "I need to pass GCSE English so I can get a job, and after that I'll never need to use it ever again."

Having said that though, I'm aware that my grammar/syntax on here hasn't always been tickety-boo either - I know I'm always putting prepositions at the ends of sentences. I do this deliberately if I think that the sentence properly structured sounds a bit too formal. If this is offending anyone then please let me know :).
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I don't know if it's related, but early "social media" (I don't like how it got all lumped under this label, but alas) such as IRC was severely limited by baud rates of the early days. It could take like a full second just to transmit a 500-letter block of text out of your computer, never mind all the slow routing in between and again a monstrously low receive speed at the other end. People started using acronyms to communicate in the most efficient way possible. This has partially morphed into "l33t speech" of the late 90s, also in that period the popularization of internet through other media such as TV started where internet communications were depicted in that way, full of new cool words and such. I remember how annoying T-Com was with their early 2000s effort to bring modems to every house with the ads completely themed for the "l33t kid". That all might have presented the Internet as highly informal medium to general populace. Basically when you consider the SMS character limit, and price of a single SMS in early 21st century, as compared to what it costs you under average European cell data plan to transmit same number of characters "over the Internet", its not surprising that people started resorting to acronyms due to basic economics.

...and the very large portion of the world possesses just basic literacy skills, their means of verbal and written communications work in their social circle and they get a sort of affirmation from that.
 
My mom is an English teacher, so I had English classes since I was literally 4. I really think I can handle myself, and I always try to write correctly (save for popular expressions and self-aware mistakes that often appear in casual conversations), and I'm also very good at speaking and writing in my native language, Portuguese. Outside of social media and aforementioned casual situations, I try hard to stick to the norms, and it thoroughly bothers me when people deliberately don't even when asked to. It's like... there are some texts and posts I occasionally happen to bump into when wandering through social media that feature some serious grammatical mistakes that I just feel the urge to stab myself in the eye. Horrible stuff. I just... I really wish people would start taking language classes more seriously.
 
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