Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
The style depends on the subject.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
Style equals pretense.
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.