From the School Library...

"Because of more and more media, we have become a sound-bite society, an advertisement society, a talk show society. Today, what we say does not have to be thoughtful and conclusive; it just has to be said now, while the microphone is still on. In a culture like ours, the ability to be a fast talker is more valued than the ability to be a reasoned and weighty talker. In this talk show society, it seems that the quantity of language has become more important than the quality."

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"Ideas today no longer need to be expressed in full sentences. Rather, the ideas of today seem to come out in a continuous flow of ongoing language. Sooner or later the idea seems to be 'out there', and then the word-stream stops"

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"In the past, the carefully structured sentence was the medium for encapsulating and precision-stating our thoughts. Today, precision and structure seem less important than the ability to 'wax eloquent' at the drop of a hat... Precision becomes less important; spontaneous expression of opinion becomes all-in-all."

~ Robert Einarsson in Chapter I of Traditional English Sentence Style


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