I think that sloppy grammar and punctuation is alive and well in the IT generations who write little, and txt often.
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It stems from much earlier than that Dave.
My Sister was approx. 2.5 years younger than I. While I had a very strict teacher of English (name of Morse), my Sister's English teacher told my parents, when queried about her spelling and punctuation, "Oh, we don't worry about that, it's more important to encourage creativity. The technical bits can follow later". They didn't!
That would have been in the early 70s... Mind you, I wish I could remember all that I was taught!
Looking forward to the Arthur Conan Doyle series beginning tonight...
