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Admin M@ said:
A pet peeve of mine is "Does anyone...."
As in, "Does anyone have a camera?"
Yes. Someone has a camera.
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One of mine is people who use "seen" instead of "saw". I seen them in concert last week.

I blame the hillbillification of the US. (And I say that with love...I'm part hillbilly myself. Just not the part that mixes up "seen" and "saw".)
 
Toopy14 said:
No, we’re having too much fun.

On a more serious note though, as a college professor of 30+ years, I have received thousands of student emails over the years. I have witnessed first-hand the death of sentence structure, spelling and grammar. As for verbal communication, if the word ‘like’ were removed from our vocabulary, the classrooms and hallways would be very quiet.
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About a year ago I started to challenge my son to see if he could go an entire day without using four words: like, ok, yeah and right. It’s been a struggle.
 
TG3K said:
And @Rick, I have a few spares of these, so you can have this one:

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I’ll take it! I’ve surely had the other kind long enough!
 
I've noticed this over the past 10 years, but in speaking, and particularly from young ladies entering the business world. I asked my daughters about it and they said it's called "Up-talking". For example:
"I reviewed our sales figures for last quarter and it appears we experienced incremental growth of three percent?"

 
richb said:
I've noticed this over the past 10 years, but in speaking, and particularly from young ladies entering the business world. I asked my daughters about it and they said it's called "Up-talking". For example:
"I reviewed our sales figures for last quarter and it appears we experienced incremental growth of three percent?"

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A few weeks ago my daughter accidently sent me a text that was intended for her boyfriend that she had been arguing with. I still have no clue as to what she was saying to him? I'm also 100% sure I don't want to decode the message or be schooled in that language :)
 
Using vintage punctuation techniques is so classic a folk style? Now is modern prog jazz punctuation!!!!?? Cause we are kewl and are not foos!? U no where m cumin' frum cuz I no where u r @?
 
Just ran into this from a few years back…

It doesn’t appear to have gotten any better. 😳 I’m guessing it never will?

😊
 
when youre unwilling to use grammer your wasting others time in excghange for saving yoyur own just think of how many times you have to reread a post that contains poor grammar spelling anbd little to no punctuation
 
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