Remember when people knew the difference between their, there & they're, your, yore & you're,...
Jul 20, 2017 09:19:10 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
Remember when people knew the difference between their, there & they're, your, yore & you're, different took from not than, than took a subject such as he & not an object such as him, etc. (OK with that last I may be am a little too much but, for God's sake, can't we all (including me or I ?) edit our posts here a little better? It seems that with the proliferation of online exchanges there (notice) has been a deterioration of usage.
Jul 20, 2017 09:47:33 #
Jul 20, 2017 10:13:50 #
Quakerwidow
Loc: Chestertown, MD
crazylibertarian wrote:
Remember when people knew the difference between their, there & they're, your, yore & you're, different took from not than, than took a subject such as he & not an object such as him, etc. (OK with that last I may be am a little too much but, for God's sake, can't we all (including me or I ?) edit our posts here a little better? It seems that with the proliferation of online exchanges there (notice) has been a deterioration of usage.
Yep; but life is short and one picks one's battles.
Jul 20, 2017 10:42:40 #
crazylibertarian wrote:
Remember when people knew the difference between their, there & they're, your, yore & you're, different took from not than, than took a subject such as he & not an object such as him, etc. (OK with that last I may be am a little too much but, for God's sake, can't we all (including me or I ?) edit our posts here a little better? It seems that with the proliferation of online exchanges there (notice) has been a deterioration of usage.
Just so I don't have to learn how to spell...
Jul 20, 2017 12:25:53 #
crazylibertarian wrote:
Remember when people knew the difference between their, there & they're, your, yore & you're, different took from not than, than took a subject such as he & not an object such as him, etc. (OK with that last I may be am a little too much but, for God's sake, can't we all (including me or I ?) edit our posts here a little better? It seems that with the proliferation of online exchanges there (notice) has been a deterioration of usage.
I suspect it has something to do with participation trophies.
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