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When I read this I was all, like, pfshsh, then I thought, wtf?? Do journalists really think they’re gooder with them headlines–”Feds tap security czar for terror flap”, etc? But seriously there are plenty of poets floating around in po-space who have been ruining the sentence since long before cyberspace.
The demise of orderly writing: signs everywhere.
One recent report, young Americans don’t write well.
In a survey, Internet language — abbreviated wds, :) and txt msging — seeping into academic writing.
But above all, what really scares a lot of scholars: the impending death of the English sentence.
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June 17th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The sentence is a discrete collection of words. Use of fragments may be proliferating, but the overall idea of a “sentence” isn’t going away.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
We’re seeing the death of grammar, as we know it. Language, and the sentence, are hearty.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Well, semantics, right?
It depends on how one defines a sentence. I am still partial to the notion that a sentence must have a subject and a predicate and that its constiuent parts agree with one another. To me, that is a sentence, and this sentence is almost extinct in the wild.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I agree that sentences are imperative for clarity because without all the
elements therein what happens is