I've posted a few threads lately, but hear me out.
This is by no means an original thought, and I'm not exactly Ernest Hemingway. But has anyone else noticed that the general standard of non-professional writing in Australia seems to be slipping and plumbing new depths all the time?
You read a comment section on social media and it's a cesspit. It's full of things like spaces followed by commas, capitalising common nouns, poor spelling, ridiculous logical fallacies and factual errors, and all-around ignorance.
What is this? Is it simply that we are exposed to more non-professional writing these days? Do these same people simply not care, and write better when they need to? Are standards of literacy actually declining? Is English evolving into a different form, with looser rules where the above doesn't stick out anymore?
The point of this post is not to be a grammar Nazi. I don't care if there are a couple of errors here and there. However, when I see whole comment sections containing almost nothing but ignorance and sentences that barely make sense, it's concerning. Meanwhile on Bigfooty, there are nuffies but most posts at least make sense, and there is a lot of quality stuff.
This is by no means an original thought, and I'm not exactly Ernest Hemingway. But has anyone else noticed that the general standard of non-professional writing in Australia seems to be slipping and plumbing new depths all the time?
You read a comment section on social media and it's a cesspit. It's full of things like spaces followed by commas, capitalising common nouns, poor spelling, ridiculous logical fallacies and factual errors, and all-around ignorance.
What is this? Is it simply that we are exposed to more non-professional writing these days? Do these same people simply not care, and write better when they need to? Are standards of literacy actually declining? Is English evolving into a different form, with looser rules where the above doesn't stick out anymore?
The point of this post is not to be a grammar Nazi. I don't care if there are a couple of errors here and there. However, when I see whole comment sections containing almost nothing but ignorance and sentences that barely make sense, it's concerning. Meanwhile on Bigfooty, there are nuffies but most posts at least make sense, and there is a lot of quality stuff.