Most people don’t believe me when I say that I have two college degrees. I don’t entirely blame them. My spelling isn’t the best and I often use slang in my speech and writing. In being a professional writer, my job is to communicate information. Many times, slang can get an idea across much better than proper grammar. My job is not to teach grammar. And yet, professional writers receive blistering emails about their grammar nearly every day — and not from our clients. They are from “Grammar Snobs”.

This got me to thinking about forms of speech and social classes. One of the ways we feel superior to others is through the use of language rules. A lot of these rigid rules are fading away. I see this as a positive sign in the development of our species.

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