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KathyPet
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Registered: ‎03-09-2010

The bad and the ugly with the internet

‎06-10-2012 10:16 PM

OK I know that the world wide web has on the whole been a wonderful improvement to all of our lives. There is nothing else that has changed our world more than the net and for that I am grateful. However along with the good comes some pretty awful bad and ugly. One of my pet peeves is the terrible grammar used in many of the news stories I read on the web. It appears as if many of these writers barely passed English 101 and nothing appears to have been run past a editor before it is posted on the web. I just finished reading a news story on Yahoo entitled "Spain angry and humiliated by bank bailout". Now the last time I checked Spain was a country, a geographic entity. A country can hardly be angry and humiliated. THe citizens of Spain may be angry and humiliated but Spain itself cannot feel human emotion.

Do they require these writers to show any proof whatsoever that they can write adequately and use correct grammar before they turn them loose to post on the web? Evidently Not!

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