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It eloped with math
Authored by: cjk fossman on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 12:59 PM EDT
and they are now living quietly in a location unknown to most
Americans.

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Actually...
Authored by: jplatt39 on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 03:14 PM EDT
I do disagree. I've been having problems with more than flakey keyboards for
decades and I've done a lot of reading of friends' writing. These days I mostly
read my mother's writing and my older brother's writing. I also read my own.
Strunk and White were correct: "Good writing is RE-writing". The
problem is nobody is allowed time any more, and certainly we don't encourage
kids to rewrite.

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  • Actually... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 03:49 PM EDT
A gripe about grammar
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 04:05 PM EDT
Some 'academic critics', who should know better, tend to object to statements
like ".... was sat", "....was stood" and "....is
come". The constructions are valid English, when used correctly. The forms
are dropping out of the written language. They are what are known as stative
(sometime 'old perfective') forms of the verbs. They are still in use in the
vernacular here in the UK. Stative forms are to be found in other languages.

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Grammar is buried with Miss Groby
Authored by: betajet on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 06:16 PM EDT
James Thurber wrote a wonderful essay "Here lies Miss Groby" (1942),
about his memories of the school-teacher who taught him English composition.
Along with "crucifying sentences on the blackboard -- she called it
Parsing", Miss Groby delighted in finding metonymies and other figures of
speech.

But Thurber was wrong about one thing -- her influence did vanish from the land.
You want Grammar? Stick to programming languages.

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What ever happened to grammar?
Authored by: albert on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 07:27 PM EDT
Ad-speak happened. ("Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should.")
Plus, we have blogs*. Newspapers and school textbooks used to be bastions of
proper grammar and spelling. Who reads newspapers anymore? Computers have
spell-checking and grammer-checking. Don't know math? Use a calculator.
Writing in cursive will be totally extinct soon, and handwriting in general,
eventually.

I don't want to think about this anymore....

* ad-speak

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What ever happened to grammar?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 11:42 PM EDT
High school English teachers in the US stopped teaching grammar in the mid to
late 1970's, with the urban schools dropping it quicker than most rural
districts. The resulting misuse of the language is very irritating. I have a lot
of problems with the blatant abuse of homonyms that constantly parade across the
screen. Its vs. it's; to, too or two; and there, their or they're are some of
the worst that I stumble on. Most of the time I have to stop when I see them and
back up to read that line again after I determine which word should have been
there. It kills any chance I might have for speed reading. My teachers in the
'60s made sure I understood the correct forms.

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What ever happened to grammar?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 12:39 AM EDT
O kneads grummer an mapf 2 bee ya cunsummr ov corprate prudocts!

Tufty

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What ever happened to grammar?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 12:34 PM EDT
You assume that students are taught to write.

Depending upon which state one lives in, it has been between three years,
and twenty five years, since teachers in public schools have been required
to teach students how to write.

If you want your kids to be educated, the only viable option is your local
catholic school. Even though are no longer as good as they used to be.

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