I joined a news group on Facebook today to keep current on a crime in my home county.
Now I wish I hadn't.
I realize that, having been a professional writer (newspaper journalist and freelance writer) all of my adult life, I risk being called an intellectual snob or an elitist, but I can't help but be horrified at the barely intelligible gibberish many people are posting there.
Like run-on sentences that go on forever without capitalization or punctuation, egregious misspellings (even through Facebook flags misspelled words), and garbled sentences that leave you guessing at what the writer had in mind.
I am a product of public school education in that county, so I see no excuse for people not knowing basic grammar and syntax.
I am embarrassed to say I came from the same place as these people who lack the writing skills of a competent third-grader.
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