What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
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.
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.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
You couldn't have human society without language.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.