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Old 05-21-2016, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by dbussone View Post
Tal - my Mom was an English teacher and librarian (medical library). I was drilled with rules, spelling, sentence structure, etc. (Never leave a participle dangling.) Our language has been destroyed by so called journalists who can't spell or use proper sentence structure. And then there is autocorrect - the bane of of our generation. And so called internet dictionaries often misspell words as well

Ok, I have girded my loins against those who will find that I have misspelled a word or used an adverb instead of a noun. I will accept complaints and corrections, but you must diagram your sentences for them to be considered legitimate.
I have met some of these fussbudget librarians. They are the ones who ssssuuuuuuuusssssshhhhhh you in the library. That rarely happens now as many of the public libraries I have been encourage noise. Not the law libraries though unless these are public law libraries near Court houses.

I had to sssssuuussshhhhhh people while on the Reference Desk at the University of Minnesota Law Library.