I like grammar. A well written page is a joy to read. Punctuation can change the meaning completely. Language and grammar is living. I think it is interesting people want to do away with single quotes in favor of double quotes or no quote. In fact typing on a mobile device has made me so impatient about apostrophes on a desktop. I never have to type the apostrophe in "you're" on a phone. It fills it in automatically. Now it is really annoying to me on a desktop. "Ty" becomes "Thank you" on my phone. Outlook should keep up!

"He thirty three." Luster said. "Thirty three this morning."
"You mean, he been three years old thirty years."

Sound and Fury(Faulkner)

Sound and fury would not be a book worth reading if you don't know >good< grammar so you can read the so called bad grammar. So even if you don't care to use it I think it is a good idea to know it.

Now there is something interesting… Emphasis is inconvenient in apps like tapatalk. There is no option in Facebook. So people find shorthand ways to create emphasis. I believe techies are influencing how this has changed. Makes sense as they tend to be the first ones to adopt the tools. For example "><" could be considered derived from XML thus I first saw my techie friends using it. Techies ranting might use: "<rant> [say your piece] <\rant>". If you don't know XML that might not make sense but I'm sure the meaning comes through regardless. I usually use "><" in place of italics (like above) and * in place of bold. *This sentence is in bold.* "[]" is used more and more as a way to denote fill in the blank as in "[your name here]". In code I don't think "[]" is ever used so it makes sense plus visually they look like a box. Sometimes I get lazy and use double quotes for everything because I have to go through two keyboards on my iPad to get there.

<rant>The iOS spell checker is regularly changing the meaning of my words into something truly bizarro. And not just a single word but a group of words. It is supposed to be intelligent at figuring out what you mean to say. I'm sorry, that is a FAIL! Or it splits words when I don't mean too and changes sentences into something completely nonsensical. It gives new meaning to the first draft. First draft is correcting iOS mistakes. Second draft is correcting mine.<\rant>

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