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Old 02-03-2016, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by csb View Post
I have often wondered what is the use of certain grammatical marks and conventions.

Using a capital at the start of a sentence is superfluous. There is a full stop AND a space at the end of the previous sentence. Do we really need three alerts to show a new sentence has started.

I use/try to use correct written grammar at all times but it is becoming a little time consuming in the digital age. Our written grammar will surely change due to technology. And change is not an unusual occurance for any language.
English is not my native language so I guess I try to pay attention a little more to what I write and the way I write it. The rules you are talking about are present in many other languages. Although you can map words to words most of the time from one language to the other, the order of the words and the structure of the sentences can be radically different. I find English is very popular because the words are fairly short, not many declination in verbs and hardly any genres in adjectives or prepositions. That level of simplicity made it a prime candidate for a base that everybody can learn. That's also why programming languages are based on English words. I agree that languages evolve over time but what you see online these days is at best ridiculous. Geoff has a very valid point. It really makes me cringe when I see University level kids making that kind of mistakes. In my eyes it looks really bad. There also seems to be a trend of labelling people who care about good spelling and syntax "grammar Nazis". So what's the next trend? "Maths Nazis" because 2+2 could be 5 in the near future?
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