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Slow Decline of Writing Skills
By Jesse Morgan | April 5, 2006
I’m sure I’m not the only person to notice this, but my spelling and grammar has been getting worse. I don’t think I’m the only one suffering from this problem.
I’m pretty sure I can attribute it to the internet in general, and this blog/irc in particular. Why do I blame them? Because I’ve gotten used to typing as fast as I can and hitting enter without proofreading.
With the blog, I do proofread a bit, but not nearly as much as I should- with IRC, I rarely even think if I *should* say it before hitting enter.
Where’s that leave me? Well, I’ve noticed that I tend to write things phonetically. What’s worse is I don’t even recognize these mistakes anymore. I wonder how many were in this little rant?
April 6th, 2006 at 3:07 am
You are right. You are absolutely not the only person to notice this, and I can’t even say I blame IRC. I just generally think my English skills are being decreased.
I actually feel that my blogging increase my skills, as I type my blog entries in OpenOffice.org hence get a red line marker for my errors. The only way for me to actually increase the skills is to know when I make mistakes, so this is a good thing.
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