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Contractions - shouldn't you have left school and be in a hospital somewhere if they start?



I don't have a problem with you, Kimmy, it's not your fault that your English is atrocious and the rest of society can't spell; of COURSE you should start to follow suit and talk like they do.

It's got nothing to do with being young; that's neither a reason to blame you nor an excuse for you to justify your spelling. It's not because YOUNG people speak like this that there are problems communicating. It's the people over thirty...specifically, it's the English teachers like the ones I had, who allowed grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation errors to pass unchecked and undetected; enabling my contemporaries to pass out of highschool even though they could hardly spell or put a sentence together...some of them, believe it or not, are now in the teaching profession...and so it's hardly surprising that you get 95% - some of those same teachers probably failed maths as well.

You're obviously intelligent enough to assimilate the way others "speak" online, and tailor your responses appropriately to fit in, so as to be understood by the great majority who confuse the letter "z" with "s". I must agree with you, that the English language is full of ridiculous conundrums and inconsistancies anyway...WHY do we have a letter "c" when a "k" or an "s" will do? So many words follow rules of their own, it makes so much more sense to spell phonetically.
It's a conundrum that the modern computer keyboard was designed after the earliest typewriters that deliberately put the letters in the LEAST efficient positions to slow typists so the keys wouldn't get jammed. Now that we have technology, it makes sense to rearrange the positions of letters in the words to make up for it.
And the mobile phones that we send our SMS messages on are designed to be aesthetic rather than efficient, too....ABC-DEF-GHI LOOKS organised, but really I'd rather have the letters I use most often at the FRONT of the queue, so I don't have to press "PQRS" when I just want "S". No wonder so many people choose to substitute a "Z" instead. "WXYZ" saves so much time.

But I think the most useful attribute you have picked up is the correct attitude. Today's world of fast, abrupt, confrontational encounters requires an abrupt, no-nonsense, arrogant attitude. I can see that you have assimilated this style in order to fit in with the society you are trying to communicate with. The unwritten intention speaks so much. Your proper disregard for empathy or ettiquette clearly identifies you to your audience, so they know who they are dealing with and can respond accordingly. And yet, because you are simply adopting a code and want to show that you really DO have a good grasp of language, you employ wonderful irony in your delivery; the only properly constructed sentence in your whole paragraph was "Why should I care about you all anyway?" - showing a knowledgeable grasp of using the rules to break the rules, the content at odds with the structure.

We over-thirties obviously have much to learn.


Craig
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Repair thy wit good youth, or it will fall to cureless ruin!