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5 Cards in this Set
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INTRODUCTION |
Attention! At ease Welcome to CC's academy for grammatically gifted reason to believe questioning establishment put those ludicrous qs to rest GSP important for reasons in rule of 3 Communication, simplification and preservation H why GP are importantly imperative for benefit of society greatest responsibility DUTY to uphold rules of grammar, correct incorrect spelling & improve overall punctuation |
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COMMUNICATION |
COMMUNICATION basic foundation for all communication clearer message - understanding idea fundamental - know who you are talking to never dare forget dif single solitary but unsurprisingly essential comma can make presence means life or death dinner with g - It's time to eat, Grandpa Rewind and freeze - Holy comma being shows address to grandpa without - time to eat Grandpa absence easily degades human r to cannibalism with comma, without comma why we must crack down on violation under-usage of commas, badly-abused marks necessity to ensure survival of grandpas GP must remind society precariousness of civiltn's foundtn. how much they owe to grammar maintain very fragile balance - barbarity and civility if not - fallen into claws of savagery, bestiality moral corruptn essence evaporated devour itself poptn decrease, probable extinction negected a mark of pause Praise - humble inconspicious comma on which our very humanity hangs upon |
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SIMPLIFICATION |
SIMPLIFICATION clarifying communication - context x3 knowing how to say sentences GPS guide us meaning of a sen can be changed? statement - question, accusatn to apology? Eng prof - A woman without her man is nothing complexity of language - effortlessly punctn extracts 1< meaning evidence of influence - empower, enrich lang why GP needed oversee S mishap, missing ', gross G error history altered Feminist movmt n occured, set back 100 years Ptn empowers female race - once opressed, vilified and objectified - male counterparts dignified colon become basis of society saved from nothingness |
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PRESERVATION |
PRESERVATION sad truth - fight to preserve lang, losing war 2014 - quick mobile internet desktop messaging progressively shortened into millennial jargon, abbreviated to accomodate thumb typing, Captn and pntn optional ist pos. to convey info, courtesy and etiquette in such short, sharp, shiny mess? NO! may seeming new stage evoltn - yet nothing but reced English back into Neolithic days reversing wise all-knowing scholar - naked Neandethal dumbly drags knuckes instd bizarre jn exps rise from murky depths of WWW cut corners, butchering, mutiliating, hacking words into acronyms sake of convenience, save keystrokes WORLD HAS GONE WRONG? commas excl, ' missing, letters banished, sentences shortnd into ludicrous exps of BRB ILY IDK LMAO ATM DW SUP MEH OMG and FML It's FUBAR heightened exp by proper Thank you exiled from convos. simple TY suffices TMI for anti-grammatical minds use proper English? Dbd, m&m victims brainwashed Like a never-ending virus - we only cure save poor unfortnte souls - GP needed 2 reinstate proper English onto throne - get epidemic under control |
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CONCLUSION |
rise united bro & sis in grammar arm against LOL users pernicious villains spelling cappuccino wrong on cafe menus fight to protect our English Look how dangs.ly close to edge of extinction already leaning towards fall of civilistn, crumbling into cannibalism, risk of patriarchy taking over to c feminist mvmnt Bigger foe to face- slowly b surely form an army: anti-grammar, auto-correct-reliant, sans punctuation of tech zombies threatng to destroy order strived for too long to attain so 2 must fill in ranks, equip with red pens, white-out, dictionaries, spellcheckers war where anything goes, cannot afford to stand idle Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. This matters. So who's with me?! |
