Post by Queen Of The Castle on May 24, 2013 22:48:51 GMT -5
Welcome to The 12th!! I hope you are enjoying our humble home and I'm sure you will have a great time as a new member to our very passionate and somewhat crazy little family here!!
If you need anything as you find your way around and settle in, just let me know!
And I will definitely check out your video channel on YouTube! Thank you for sharing. We do love sharing Castle-related videos here, as I'm sure you can tell by the massive thread full of fanvids on the site. Lol.
Post by Queen Of The Castle on May 24, 2013 22:46:06 GMT -5
YES!! I'm sure you can imagine that I am a stickler for proper grammar and punctuation. I even text in full sentences with proper punctuation... and no, that's not a joke!
It's funny because I get a lot of flack at work for emailing and "sparking" (workplace IM) in complete sentences rather than using abbreviations and whatnot. I just can't do it. Really, does it take THAT much longer for someone to read a full sentence rather than just a bunch of abbreviated words? I don't think so!
I agree with Angie's assessment that the younger generations tend not to read as much and what they do read is so often not written in proper English to begin with, so they aren't as exposed to proper language as much as older generations were. Thus, they haven't developed those same skills that were such a huge focus while we were all in school.
I believe a lot of it is also because of things like email, IM, texting, BBM, twitter, etc, where people tend to gravitate to using abbreviations and slang, rarely writing in proper sentences and certainly ignoring grammar altogether.
It's just an entirely different world that we live in today, one that puts the focus on faster communication rather than proper communication. It's very sad.
