Nicks WorldYou know something? When reading braille, I notice things about people's writing styles that I never would notice with JAWS and I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I've notice the lack of capitalization in writing these days. Is that just not a thing in modern English education? #Writing
@NicksWorld Braille shows me many things I would not otherwise easily realize. I feel the quality of education in the US has been going down the tubes for a lot of years now. When I read books by British authors, for example, or even US authors that wrote decades ago, the difference is stark. I just read a book by William Faulkner, and the writing is fabulous, but he passed away in the early 1960s.
@Lynn I guess things change, but we all do what we can with what we have and there are great modern authors.
@NicksWorld Indeed there are. I was speaking in general, and there are almost always exceptions. Another example of this is when you read transcripts of BBC podcasts versus US produced news podcasts. I really see a significant difference there too.
@Lynn Well, the Brits invented English so it only makes sense why things are different.
@NicksWorld I'm really not talking about usage or presentation. What I'm trying to get at is the ofen noticable lack of wordsnithing by US authors.