Does it Take That Much More Effort?

August 27, 2004 - 2:11pm

Does it take that much more effort …

to type with capital letters where it matters? Are sentences too difficult a concept?
to spell out the full word “you”?
to learn that plural nouns, even acronyms, end with just an S and that possessive or contracted words have an apostrophe?
to learn that the bastardization of the paragraph to two or three lines was designed for newspapers and that a real paragraph is a complete concept with sentences as complete thoughts?
to learn to speak your own damned language better than people learning it as a second language?

uh, yeah? sheesh!

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