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EFerrari

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Wed Feb-13-08 01:14 AM
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16. There's some weirdo kind of loss of language going on.

Edited on Wed Feb-13-08 01:15 AM by sfexpat2000

Politicians can't speak English, let alone pronounce it.

But, there's more. Anchors can't read the language -- Greta who works WJ couldn't pronounce "ostensible" the other day and she has frequent pronunciation catastrophes.

News writers can't compose paragraphs anymore. When I hunt for stories for the ER Daily News, so many of them use sentences as paragraphs. Maybe editors have been outsourced to Mars.

I usually agree with you about the myth of the Golden Age of anything, but holy cow, it's like we're leaking language and there's no fill up in sight.

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