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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
If there is a decline in communications skills, it has nothing to do with texting and Xbox, and everything to do with television, radio, and movies. In other words, it is of long standing.
And, for that matter, there's probably something to be said for the theory that the popularity of complex 19th century style novels has declined because the 19th century audience for whom it was written - educated, well off, and with large amounts of leisure time - has little in common with the 20th century audience, who tend to be much busier with jobs, etc., and have less time to spend the entire day reading.
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Agreed.
I think auto-correct spell check, punctuation and capitalization on Microsoft Word, etc is also to be blamed as far as bad grammar/spelling on the internet. Even my spelling has gotten worse over the years, and I'm a pretty good speller.