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13th Jan 2019Mikey4 commented on:
Has social media destroyed good grammar?Given that speech and writing are for communication, if the receiver can understand it easily, that is what matters. A lot of grammar was invented by the Victorians who made up rules for everything, even inventing a lot of tartans in a period of interest in Scottish things. Making up a rule for something does not mean that rule is correct, and even if it is correct, that it will still be correct in a 100 years time. The English language is alive and evolving. If you want a language where the rules apply for all time you need a dead language like Latin. When I was a kid "realize" was the spelling but the word has evolved into "realise" as have many words ending in "-ize". In different parts of the world Englisg evolves differently ("Toc Pisin", spoken by 6 million people, is a great example of how the English language evolves differently in different parts of the world.