30 November 2008, by Pam Smith

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Grammar Versus Speed

The 21st Century is heralding many changes, large and small, across all spectrums. Speed and brevity has become paramount to accuracy. There is a desperate need to be the FIRST. To get the message across as quick as possible. Texting and emailing has superceded all before them, shooing grammar and correct spelling away in the pursuit of brevity and time-management. The new shorthand has dispensed with comma’s and full-stops, and any form of grammatical PC. Punk grammar has taken over! Time is the thing, an added burden to the already work-stressed, over-pressured, income earner. But there is hope. Fortunately there are still a few language pedants about.

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