[etni] Forces of 'barbaric illiteracy' too strong
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Forces of 'barbaric illiteracy' too strong
CNN - April 19, 2004
New book serves as witty eulogy for punctuation
BRIGHTON, England (AP) -- Lynne Truss fears the English language could be in
its death throes.
Proper, written English, that is -- the kind with correctly placed apostrophes,
elegantly positioned
semicolons, commas in all the right places and in none of the wrong ones. It's
being shoved aside, she thinks,
by an electronic onslaught of uncapitalized, unpunctuated, ill-thought-out
Internet verbiage.
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