RE: How You Write Reflects How Much You Respect Yourself
Thank you! I so agree.
My parents were sticklers for correct grammar and punctuation, as my dad was a teacher, and mom probably should have been. They had an amazing library, which my sisters and I took full advantage of, which enabled all of us to take or education much further than what we were exposed to in our formal schooling.
This is why FB and Twitter drive me to distraction, with all the intentional misspellings and obfuscations, that result in the real point of what the author is saying being lost in the drivel.
Your post reminded me of one of my favorite poems, by Taylor Mali, who taught school in a private school in NYC before becoming a full time poet.
The poem is about the ongoing destruction of the English language by people who are "too cool" to speak correctly, and my favorite part is the last two stanzas:
"I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too."
Very good comment and I agree 100%.
I can not take people who write like children seriously and I am not interested in what they write.
Yes, I agree. I'm really tired of people, online and otherwise, forgetting how to behave like adults.
It's as though they've completely forgotten (if they ever knew) how to have a polite disagreement with someone, without immediately devolving into slurs and name calling.
I'm admin on a couple of different FB groups, including a very large artist's group, and the sheer numbers of adult-aged children throwing online fits for no reason is staggering.
There seems to be a lot of that going around these days.
Argumenting with people that are clearly below you is a waste of time.