If you had not already said it, I would have done so myself. Note my name.
The English subjunctive mood's ailing health is a linguistic tragedy, but it hardly compares to some of the language's other maladies. Email and chatrooms seem to have somehow brought many to the conclusion that punctuation is only needed when ending a sentence with question marks and exclamation points(and that multiples of these marks is acceptable), that the shortest, most common words are the ones that need to be abbreviated, and that emphasis is a proper use for capital letters.
Teenagers and adolescents are turning in essays in English class containing gibberish like "w/e," "alot," "b4," and "ttyl i g2g." After March of 2005, the SAT I will have an essay section. That will be quite interesting.
Mutterer, I always find it amazing(amusing?) how clueless people are about their own language. Even after pointing out their error, they fail to recognize it. Whenever I point out a sentence where the subjunctive mood should have been used, there is a high chance of getting a response along the lines of:
"But James Bond isn't plural!"
You dolts! Haven't you ever ever even seen the inside of a grammar book? I sometimes wonder.
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If you had not already said it, I would have done so myself. Note my name.
The English subjunctive mood's ailing health is a linguistic tragedy, but it hardly compares to some of the language's other maladies. Email and chatrooms seem to have somehow brought many to the conclusion that punctuation is only needed when ending a sentence with question marks and exclamation points(and that multiples of these marks is acceptable), that the shortest, most common words are the ones that need to be abbreviated, and that emphasis is a proper use for capital letters.
Teenagers and adolescents are turning in essays in English class containing gibberish like "w/e," "alot," "b4," and "ttyl i g2g." After March of 2005, the SAT I will have an essay section. That will be quite interesting.
Mutterer, I always find it amazing(amusing?) how clueless people are about their own language. Even after pointing out their error, they fail to recognize it. Whenever I point out a sentence where the subjunctive mood should have been used, there is a high chance of getting a response along the lines of:
"But James Bond isn't plural!"
You dolts! Haven't you ever ever even seen the inside of a grammar book? I sometimes wonder.