Comment A call for further reflection (Score 1, Insightful) 838
What this gentleman seems to overlook is that there was never any past period where literacy was widespread and all the world's (and by the world, I of course mean Western Europe) inhabitants were essayists and poets? Did I somehow miss the era of an entire civilization of Donnes and Popes?
Perhaps the gentleman should reflect on the possibility that grammar has never been a high priority for the masses. Perhaps he should consider that more people are now literate than ever before. Perhaps he should take a look inside a few graduate English programs in America, and tell me about the high standards upheld there.
Perhaps the gentleman should reflect on the possibility that grammar has never been a high priority for the masses. Perhaps he should consider that more people are now literate than ever before. Perhaps he should take a look inside a few graduate English programs in America, and tell me about the high standards upheld there.
