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KarenL
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KarenL asked in News & EventsMedia & Journalism · 9 years ago

Is Anyone Else Mourning the Death of Grammatical English in 2011?

I believed that the use of the adverb, died tragically in 2011. Commercials, TV talking head, and print journalism repeatedly failed to use the beloved adverb . "I wake up feeling bad vice badly.

I feel good vice well.

Redundant phrases did however have a population explosion. I repeatedly saw in print media nonsense like "…[Kentucky] will release 990 convicted felons on Tuesday." Can anyone be a felon without a conviction?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    I mourn the death of grammar. Every day I see grammatical errors, not just on the internet but in proper, written English. It's amazing how grammar is deteriorating so quickly. However what saddens me more is the war on vocabulary. Less intelligent people are fighting to stop us from using words they do not understand and want us to stick to simple, childish words. I've been castigated many times before for simply using a word that was deemed too difficult, even though it was the best word to fit the context. Our vast choice of words is what makes English special and it would be a shame to lose it, and a shame to lose the glue that holds the language together (grammar).

  • launer
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Oh yea confident! If all human beings grew to become into for the conflict in Iraq the insergents might lay down their riffles and in simple terms supply up. Why does those nasty liberals save asserting that the conflict in Iraq isn't a remarkable concept. The liberals at the instant are not in can charge and characteristic little or no say so, certainly none. Like those Barterds care who's for the conflict and who isn't. Africa wasn't for the Islamic forces killing them and taking over their united states of america yet that did not supply up them from killing the finished bunch. you would be in l. a. l. a. land. wager what dude, the liberals at the instant are not in can charge?

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Yes, I too mourn the death of this language. With all the money we spend on public education in the USA, cannot people correctly use Homophone (different words that sound the same). There They're and Their, to too and two are incorrectly used even in newspapers. I get at lease three resumes with 2 for those proper words.

    Redundant usage General (four stars) name. Note in the US Military a General has four stars. a Lieutenant General has three , Major General has two, and a Brigadier has one.

  • 9 years ago

    it is not death , it is rejuvenation of english language .

    It is confetti of many language including language of ex colonies

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  • 9 years ago

    R.I.P. Written English. You will be missed. :'(

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