Question, do they not teach this stuff at school any more? Or is it that no one reads anything anymore by professional writers (authors, journalists) and thus no longer comes into contact with correct spelling? Or is it just that the illiterate are now widely read on the net, when a decade or so ago they weren't and we never knew that they couldn't write English? Or are lots of people writing in English as a foreign language? If it's any consolation, the mistakes in the average French post are even worse (it's a trickier language to spell with lots of spellings sounding the same) and I don't think that Spanish is immune, from what I have read in that language.
A good question to which I do not have an answer. I shall enquire amongst some teacher friends. I know there was a period of time when creativity was more highly regarded than precise grammar and spelling and I am sure that texting has helped with the overall decline in standards.
you may perceive it as declining but it may just be evolving? hasnt language had a habit of doing that down the years?
I love this, it's all part of 'The Pedants Revolt', but don't think journalists and authors are immune! There's loads of examples in the bike press including where riders have 'lead' (led) races. I reckon 'spell-checkers' have a lot to answer for!
Knowing what the rules of language are and being prepared to breach them creatively is one thing*. Ignorance and carelessness of the rules is another. * Or maybe two things.
it would be 'one' thing. or another! Not, 'two others' A handful of apples is one thing, a handful of pears is another. It doesn't matter how many fruits, it's how many hands. ;-)
What was the registration of that Guzzi, Brian? And.....they could of left art the effing swaring on that beeker might'nt they of?