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To: jbe who wrote (1224)	5/5/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) of 4710

Hi Jbe, It's" for "its," "their" for "they're," "your" for "you're, You're right. I do a lot of wincing both reading posts on SI and also in our print media, whose spokesmen continue to refer to their media in the singular. But I don't wince as much as I used to. I no longer bristle when I hear like used as a conjunction, or their used as a politically correct neuter single pronoun. Those of us who care about such things are in the minority and probably will be gone soon. The print medium is moribund in the sense that we knew it -- reading for entertainment instead of for naked facts or numerical data. (This data still kills me.) I thought of language as art this weekend. I read Conrad's Heart of Darkness on the way to visit my son, since I knew he was reading it for an English course. Beautifully written. Isn't it interesting that two of the best writers in our language (Nabokov and Conrad) were not native speakers of English? We must accept that computer communications will often be like TV, nasty, brutish, and short. We gained a lot with TV and the computer, and we lost a lot. Jack

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