if this is so, my generation has a problem – and I am partially to blame.
As I send my best friend a fifty word text with not one punctuation mark, she replies with only:
“please add commas – you made no sense”
Whoops. Commas…. Commas what are those again? Oh yeah those beautiful things that add pauses to sentences. Wait. If I want to send a text quickly I need to delete those. They are not necessary right? Only one more button I have to click while trying to text and drive. Might as well save a life and just be confusing. Grammar is unimportant.
Sad but true. These days most of our conversations are sent through texts, instant messages and emails. Unfortunately these forms, although convenient, are lacking one major thing. Voice Intonation. Something only an in person or a phone call can have. It’s the thing that divides the happy “sure” from the sarcastic “sure”. Otherwise how else is the person I am talking to supposed to know how I feel about them asking last minute to pick them from the airport at 3 am all the way across the metroplex?
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