Our (collectively refering to my generation) and younger generations, I freelly admit, have a shocking lack of grammar and spelling. I managed to gain a degree then a PhD without a single idea of how to construct a sentence.
I deal with professionally qualified people on a dailly basis - they can't write either.
Who do you blame?
Personally I am to blame for not having had (no, made) the time to fill the gaps in my ignorance. Was I to blame at school when the curriculum devoted no time to the subject of structuring written english. Why was I given an English GCSE? Because I was one of the few who knew where to use an apostrphe?
Anyway, language will evolve, english will in turn evolve.
Dig it Daddyo, cool, ripper, fair dinkum y'cannae stop it.
What we need is tolerance so we can ALL enjoy communicating. If someone is less than clear in their meaning, ask for clarification. We don't all come from the same educational background.
Heyho, back to looking up rude names on the census LOL!
Pam
