Wriging

I'm with you 100%. I despise that.

I hear that a LOT on our local news stations and I ALWAYS yell the correction back to them. I've emailed the management a few times with no luck... people (irritatingly enough) just don't seem to care if they sound ignorant.

I've seen NETWORK news anchors butcher a while broadcast by speaking some grammatically butchered form of something similar to English and just stood there with my mouth agape at the sheer stupidity of the individual regurgitating the "news" on TV.

I wish this trend would reverse itself.

Sadly, I know that my grammar and punctuation have suffered due to all my internet use.

I'm glad to hear it's not just me. I was beginning to think I was crazy, or that I'd just missed some strange language migration thing.

or that I'd just missed some strange language migration thing.

Well...

That may be the case, really. It's a certainty that our use of technology causes us to not only create new words, but change the meaning of current words as well. It would not be a stretch at all if that trend creeps into our spelling and grammar.

Because Google makes dollars and not cents (sense)?

I thought I had landed on Mars the other day when I was at the store and heard kids TALKING in Text Message speak.

"Like OMG Stacey, NFW!!!!"

I wanted to smack them.

@RightOn: ORLY?

OMG RLY!

I am not all that great with my grammar either, but I thought such mistakes were only made by people whose first language isn't English!

Sadly... poor grammar and spelling are becoming the norm in our society.

I've had people say to my face "what do I care... you can still get the gist of what I'm saying."

We throw away PILES of resumes at work because of atrocious spelling and grammar.