Feb 02 2009
TALK IS GETTING CHEAPER (and so is writing).
Now that we’ve given everyone with internet access an outlet for their opinions, those with little education, maturity, experience or grasp of the difference between a contraction and a conjunction are spouting rage throught the world.
In lieu of a respectable vocabulary (and spell check), there are some who use words spewed by comedians who aren’t funny enough to finish a sentence without the “f” word in it.
I recently read a posted comment in which the writer suggested that someone “kill themselves” because he did not agree with her comment. That’s an anger management candidate if I ever “read” one.
What makes people who slept through English 101, Psychology, American History and economics classes think they are experts in how to run the world?
Instead of downloading another angry rap song, I suggest these malcontents use the thesaurus and spell check on their computers and teach themselves how to diagram a sentence while they are studying world and domestic diplomacy.
The internet has replaced the local bar or diner. I can remember having breakfast every Saturday in my favorite diner and overhearing (how could I help it) one blowhard and gasbag after another spouting off on the correct way to do this or that. One day, a really short, pudgy dude spent a half hour loudly explaining the correct method for slam dunking a basketball–something I am sure he had only done in fantasies.