<strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">heheh, yes, typos are certainly excusable ... However, there IS an alarming and increasing growth of illiteracy not just in the U.S. but in other 'developed' countries as well. </span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">It only takes the most minimum amount of time reading Facebook, eBay and other internet sites to be made clearly aware of this. You see spelling so shockingly bad that it would be hilarious if it wasn't so alarming. And punctuation? "Punkctuatean! Whats" that,!!!? LOL"!! Wee don,t nead no; steenkin= p</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">unkctuatean!!!??!</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">"</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">No, it's not a matter or snootiness, elitism, or "better-than-others-ism." It simply an undeniable fact that more and more people are incapable of expressing themselves clearly and articulately -- both when speaking and when writing. And this is truly scary.</span></strong>