This figures. I have stopped watching youtube videos because EVERYBODY on them seems to be incapable of completing a sentence without using f#*k or c#@t between every second word. It has become second nature, and even fiction books printed since about 1998 (American ones that, well most books available here are American anyway) have characters talking the same way. It used to be that when someone was interviewed and the interviewee used obscenities all the time, the obscenities were "bleeped out", but not any more. As well as slovenly language, it seems that all sorts of expletives are now acceptable.
I don't watch TV myself, but it is just about always on. The kids and my husband can't seem to be in a room with the TV off. I get tired of the constant grunting, screaming and swearing. It is like someone (in Hollywood?) has decided to not have actors actually talk any more, but that they can convey everything by grunting and screaming with the occasional expletive thrown in.
It's often more helpful to read the "comments" to an article. However, most of them in this particular article are positive, but at the end of one, the writer makes a point about correct grammar and then ends by saying "your" instead of "you're". I see that so much, has it become the new normal?
I'm not at all surprised to learn that grammar is to be thrown out the window altogether. What do you think?
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/22/university-of-washington-declares-correct-grammar-is-racist/#comment-3170272653The Writing Center at the University of Washington is telling students that expecting Americans to use proper grammar perpetuates racism.
A press release put out by the University of Washington’s Writing Center argues that “there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,” and that pressure to conform to proper American grammar standards perpetuate systems of racism.
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here's the statement from the university:
https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/university-writing-program/writing-centerOur Beliefs
The writing center works from several important beliefs that are crucial to helping writers write and succeed in a racist society. The racist conditions of our society are not simply a matter of bias or prejudice that some people hold. In fact, most racism, for instance, is not accomplished through intent. Racism is the normal condition of things. Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society. For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent “standard” of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.
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And here is a snippet from another article about this same thing:
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/university-of-washington-writing-guru-declares-american-grammar-racist-and-unjust/Posters that appeared this week in the college’s writing center are part of a new effort to teach students that the conventional rules on how to structure sentences and form ideas in written language are perpetuating inequality and “white supremacy.”
“Racism is the normal condition of things. Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society,” the poster claims. It goes on to say that critiquing a student’s use of language, or implying that there is any one grammatical standard within the English language, is inherently discriminatory.
The writing center director, Dr. Asao Inoue, is the brains behind the operation to up-end students’ regressive notions of language. He is a “searcher of anti-racist writing assessment,” according to his Twitter profile, and has published two books on how to promote a “socially just future” by dismantling academic structures that reward proper grammar and usage.
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