I have to agree with MMI on this one, because without a uniform grammar, books would be in a hell of a mess. If grammar and speech belonged to the individual I believe we would need translators for the translators.

I will give you an example; I was talking to my daughter and a friend of hers the other day. He walked off after a few minutes and was talking his gibberish to one of his own, the so called “Chaves.” I then asked my daughter what the hell he had been talking about, and she translated. The “Chav,” had been talking in a cut off English and I mean a shortening of words. After she explained I realised that if this “2012 Chav” or dick head, that was straight out of school had written his conversation down on paper, it would have read like a text message.

The English language and grammar is one of the hardest in the world to learn. Yet the multitude of countries in the world, are now starting to have it as a second language. The English language and its grammar that is there for a reason, is now being eroded away by these “Chav’s, Rappers, and anyone else that has a problem with society.

If you need a real experience of the erosion, go onto Yahoo home page and read some of the posts in reference to the news stories. The erosion of grammar in writing or speech will always have an element of uneducated stupidity or laziness that arrives with it. The ones that do look half sensible are normally wrong, because in their attempt to look intelligent on paper they have used Microsoft word, cut and paste.

Anyone that does the amount of writing I do, knows that Microsoft word/grammar is not 100%. It is for that reason I have an editor for all my books, and on occasions he has had some choice words that he has shared with me.

Be well IAN 2411