Who isn't annoyed by bad English?
Reading today’s (9.8.10) Education Guide in The Monitor, I could not hide my delight that there is at least one person who feels like me. Some of the people close to me know how much I have been concerned about the English today’s future leaders speak, write or use to communicate. I was never the best English student at school, but even I find some of the English used inexcusable so much that sometimes I have had to engage the offenders, to their surprise and irritation. As a person completing my fourth decade on this scenic planet, I am probably from prehistory. I spell the same way in emails, FB, documents, and text messages. It's not that much extra work, as many of today’s indolent young citizens would want us to believe. I hear it is a sign of progress to come up with new words or completely write them in a different way, but I think there is a difference between inventing words and adulterating those that have been in existence for years. The youths especially have mas...