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Originally Posted By: BranSheaThe composition showed that the writer was unable to transmit compact clear information. No fun. I answered her to explain that maybe after I would have regrouped her text( typo's, gaps, useless unclear repetitions, misspellings) I would be able to react to the contents. Simply a confusing mess, nòt because the case is complicated, but because she messed up the language.
You didn't understand it, so she will explain it to you, and if both of you really want to communicate, then communication will happen.
This sort of thing happens all the time. It happened 50 years ago and presumably it happened 500 years ago. Yeah it's a shame, but I don't see how it means "a loss of grammar", pace Barzun.
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