Re: I need some help!


I don't know where anyone got the idea that they had some guarantee that
the rules of punctuation and grammar would never change in their
lifetime. If that were true, we would still be speaking the language
of Geoffrey Chaucer! Not every change is a dumbing down of the
language or a signal of the decline of civilization, folks. If you
don't like the BOS, find a different reference and become familiar with
it. I don't know of any language reference that hasn't gone through
several editions, though, so what are you going to do? You can keep up
with the small changes that happen over the years, or you can ignore the
whole issue for a decade and then just throw up your hands and declare
that you refuse to learn anything new.

This is far afield of Ed's problem with moronic QA, of course, but it's
just something I cannot understand. English is a living, organic thing.
Styles in punctuation do change, new words are coined, and we learn
them. Or we don't.

Gisele


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    ... Comes down to the fact that each form of writing has a style guide: ... we would still be speaking the language ... I don't know of any language reference that hasn't gone through ... Styles in punctuation do change, new words are coined, and we learn ...
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