Do you think there is a grammer war going on between the young and the old?

Question

Oh yeah grammar must get that right .x

Answer 1

yes the young people are trying to create their own grammar by making new words e.t.c while the old people doesn't want to change the way they were brought up to speak .

Answer 2

A very good question and I hope my answer is just as good.Yes there is a bit of a grammer war going on these days between the ages of young and old but its only because as youngsters the ones you term as old of which I am glad to say I am being a mere 58 years young as a youngster I had the same about the way my elders spoke and about the way they expected youngsters to speak,however I do have to say and I don't wish to offend you or any other youngster,but there is a difference to-day and now I'll probably sound like a right old fart yes you do sound different .Street talk that is,but if you,when you are in older peoples company and you talk so that they understand then you will find hey presto we all still talk the same,how's that

Answer 3

The Indians have found a nice way of going around it so as not to offend the old generation. When the Vedas with their archaic grammer became uninteligible they did not undertake a revision. They ascribed the unintelligible character to divine creation. Vedas are the word of god and how can humans follow it.They made the rules of Panini to the Vedas.There was not even controversity much less a grammer war here.

Even in modern language spoken impurely by the common man does not lead to any conflict since the impure language is taken as governed by its own rules.

Answer 4

There may be a series of those who use proper grammar and those who do not (and perhaps spell it 'grammer'), but the final judge of who wins is the dictionary, which is mostly written by old farts, so engaging in this controversy is pretty useless.

In the US, English grammar is only taught in graduate schools. Mostly what is taught is remedial English from kindergarten through the BA degree.

People who write and speak well do so because they practice emulating others who do so.

If one emulates ghetto speech, army speech, or other types of jargon, a number of people will assume that you are not too smart.

Answer 5

Perhaps, and there is the grammar and spelling war across the pond. I think English as we know it will soon disappear and in a few generations we will be back to the stone age when it comes to communicating LOL

Answer 6

The war of the apostrophe or text speech (txt spch)! Wouldn't say it was a "war" as such, just that rules of language are there to keep some sort of ordered speech. If we forgo it all, we lose a little of what makes our language (whatever it may be) function and be easily understood by everyone. There's a time and a place for text speech and exam papers and job applications are neither.

Answer 7

Not a war, just total miscommunication of the rules. I'm doing a course in proofreading just now, and all the boundaries I was taught as a child (now 30) have changed.

Answer 8

Yes, I think there is. I am dead worried that in some ten years' time, I won't be able to understand English anymore as more of the older generation of English speakers die. Could someone start a Save English (grammar and pronunciation) campaign?

Answer 9

The grammar war has always been going on since English became English - not just between age groups, but gender, culture, region, etc.

Answer 10

I don't know if it's a conscious war or just laziness on the part of some about grammar and spelling.