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Old 5th Apr 2009, 11:58
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I have given up on the word "their"
With the poor English skills today, it seems to have been dropped.
Don't give up! keep driving the point home- these aren't keyboard slips, they are plain ignorance. We all had schooling- if people want to communicate with the wider world, why should we accept sloppy crap like that? It makes me wince. And the response you get? Abuse! So what? I'd rather try and get my grammar right than be a lazy ignorant slob not knowing the difference between there, they're and their, 'would have' and 'would of', and all the other sensible grammar matters they could be bothered to listen in to in class!

Why should the written world become a morass of stupid mistakes by the great uneducated (uneducated because they couldn't be bothered to listen)? It's the English today who display 'poor English skills'. They must be shamed into at least trying, not protected from all criticism!
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