No educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone. But now, look what's happened: everyone's writer! [...] People who have been taught nothing about their own language are (contrary to educational expectations) spending all their leisure hours attempting to string sentences together for the edification of others.
Lynne Truss, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves".
I hope she didn't refer to me. We'll see.
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