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Love the sash idea. And maybe the blue check people can get a blue T-shirt that has a circle with a checkmark on the front. Because the more we can make Twitter like real life, the better. Of course, that would be an additional $8.

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Awkward isn't the same as incorrect. realizing it, after HS we rely on our environment for reinforcement of what we learned in, in school about English. If all people see is incorrect English, they

will start repeating it. That's how we've ended up with the incorrect use of "impact" as a verb (now they're even putting an 's' on it...horrors), the incorrect "impactful" (called barbaric by experts), the incorrect "majorly," the redundant "these ones" and "those ones," the idiotic "than me" rather than the obviously correct 'taller than I (am)." Most articles on the Internet are badly phrased and technically incorrect and incorrectly punctuated. Use of English today is a real mess. Most journalists won't even use a dictionary. Acceptance of mediocrity, trophies for 'showing up,' 14 or 79 valedictorians in a class, GPAs over 4.0 w/a 4.0 system, advance placement courses as if exceptional have killed the pursuit of excellence. So, while colloquial has its place, that place should be obvious, so it isn't read and accepted as correct use of English.

Note: Had a lot of trouble typing this and correcting typos as system can't buffer keystrokes. Is it the website or my laptop? Thanks. BTW, shouldn't we be allowed to type two spaces where needed or appropriate instead of having young programmers, who don't know anything about reading aloud on radio for the visually impaired or how documents should look nor editing text, turn the Internet into a dictatorship? What ya think?

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Frank, that is supposed to say about that "without realizing it, after HS we rely on our environment to reinforce what we learned in school about English."

Didn't realize system can't buffer keystrokes, so I was typing at my usual speed. Never seen this before. If my laptop isn't causing this, we better pray this doesn't become another horrible "new" way of doing things. That would be a nightmare.

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Beastbot wants to get rid of Twitter, so e-mails will be great again. Naah, that won't help anything. Time is our most precious commodity, and emails suck up too much of it. Just call or drop by. It's easier and faster.

Besides, our health as a society and as human beings depends on our getting back to in-person interaction . . . our own voices on the phone and our own bodies in proximity. Technology has some advantages sometimes, but its excess use is causing people to lose their humanity. And it, along with higher education, has encouraged people to become superficial thinkers driven and controlled by emotion. Nothing will cause our demise as a country and a society faster than that.

In the meantime, suspending some left-wingers for a time solely b/c of their thoughts --- just for the experience --- might trigger an epiphany for a few. Or is that wishful thinking?

TIP: "Those are all my ideas" is more correct in that context than saying "There are all my ideas." Our language is about time and place . . . where one is in relation to the message being conveyed. At the beginning = "Here are all my ideas" or "These are . . ." or "The following are . . ." At the end = past - "those" up above, "those" ideas I just described, becomes correct. Ciao`

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Anytime I say something awkward, that's my skill as a writer in being colloquial.

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How to make Twitter Better: Get rid of it.

MAKE E-MAILS GREAT AGAIN

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We're going to email millions of people our thoughts?

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Eh, I was kinda referring to the time before Twitter. Personal interaction is what I meant. Like, I don't WANT to e-mail millions of people my thoughts. Maybe a couple dozen.

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But, what if it's a good thought that can be analyzed further and/or applied to something else? Shouldn't everyone have a chance to benefit/learn from that simple thought you had?

James Madison once noted that a civilized society cannot exist [nor survive] without virtue in its people. Ever thought of it that way, from that perspective? It explains and provides an answer, in one simple sentence, to every complaint and issue a society can have. As obvious as that is, our leaders, CEOs, and some parents have missed it. Those of us who haven't missed that fact didn't/don't have the term 'virtue' in the front of our respective brains 'cause 'virtue' is not a word and concept American society in general has been using and applying the last 55 yrs. or more even though it's a term and concept that covers it all.

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But, if it's a good thought worth considering, analyzing further or applying to something else, shouldn't it be shared? We need some ways to wean people off their useless habit of engaging in superficial thinking that's driven and controlled by emotion that is destroying society in the U.S. and maybe elsewhere.

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