Is technology the cause of deteriorating grammar?
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Real2Posts: 2,970
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View Profile When I was 7, it was 1994. Sun Microsystems released the java programming language. Here's the cover of Time magazine from July 25, 1994:
That was probably right around the time I found out what a computer is. Soon after, we acquired a computer like this:
which ran MS-DOS (i.e. it ran completely off of floppy disks, both 3.5" and 5.25"). Needless to say, I wasn't browsing internet forums.
Scarecrow2Posts: 9,168
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View Profile i eventually dropped capitals in my posts because
it looks cute :)
Garuda2Posts: 2,123
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View Profile You see, thats where I just strangle people to death, Scarecrow.
dicapcirPosts: 1
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View Profile I accept with information: that the internet is just a big chatroom for their Us and Rs and TTYLs to mate and spawn ROFLs.
Dragon⁰⁷⁷2Posts: 2,165
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View Profile I think that people are just idiots.
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2-D2Posts: 12,355
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View Profile i've noticed that most people that are text maniacs have cellphones that flip out/around and are like a mini key board. shit like that likely helps people text legibly.
CGIllusion2Posts: 617
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View Profile Facepunch (and garrysmod sub) forums auto bans people for bad grammar. Standards need to be set or people will be lazy.
Brownoser2Posts: 511
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View Profile Facepunch (and garrysmod sub) forums auto bans people for bad grammar. Standards need to be set or people will be lazy.
cough cough
not since december 08
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View Profile ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fuck u guys my gramar is just as good as it always been fukin fag
2-D2Posts: 12,355
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View Profile yeah, facepunch stopped doing that a while ago.
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View Profile It is not technology. It's just that some people don't have grammatical skills, or some people don't have enough time and the use improper grammar to save it. You don't have to blame technology, because centuries before the eve of the computer and the Internet, people still used improper grammar for those same reasons. But, you have your opinions and I have mine, so let's not start a flame war.
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View Profile Nikolai the necromancer. Over 3 years old thread...
Please check the date next time.
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View Profile I don't think that the reason is people not understanding grammar, I think it's just laziness.
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View Profile ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fuck u guys my gramar is just as good as it always been fukin fag
Yeah.. you have perfect grammar looking at you just wrote on top. ;)