Thanks Post-Dispatch readers: Good reason America needs newspapers

Check just this first page of posts - just proves that the typical St. Louis Cards fan lacks basic grammar skills.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/news-talk-of-the-day/2006/10/painful-memories-got-a-story-about-the-68-series/

 

And this is different than any other fan message board/blog in cyberspace how?
The Internet has robbed people, particularly the younger generation, of its ability to communicate in anything but acronyms and poor spelling - LOL, ROFL, OMG, etc.
It's very sad.

 

The Internet has encouraged people at any and all times to telegraph their emotions to the world, by way of said silly-ass acronyms and Brady Bunch laugh track-esque "emoticons."

 

not NSFW but maybe a DB?

 

I almost see it as the evolution of language.

How much different is English today than it was 100 years ago? 1000 years ago? Someone from those eras would look at what is considered proper English today and be disgusted or befuddled by it.

Maybe this step in evolution, with "LOL" AND "ROFL", is a product of being lazy or uneducated, but it's a step either way.

jk

 

DTGDTN!!!!!!

 

Smilies come from Satan's colon.

 

True, but be thankful we have no more clowns

 

Good point. Maybe someday "you" will be "u" and "are" will be "r" and it will be considered the correct spelling? Smaller and telephone keyboards have made people seek typing efficiencies. The endless acronyms I could do without, however.

 

"U" instead of "you" (just one example) is just a way of getting across your point in text messages when there's a character limit, right?