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Unread 03-03-2016, 06:07 PM   #3
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It's all Nash Buckingham's fault! When he tried to paraphrase Horace Miller's black MS dialect so white folks could read it, the contractions, apostrophes, semi-colons and quotation marks 'went viral." Linguistic scholars are still trying to decipher it, and some in the modern age adapted the approach to outdoor vernaculars as their style of writing as well! Some actually post on this forum; missing/incomplete sentences are only part of the irritating milieu, as are intentionally crude grammatical presentations of random thoughts. Edgar, I feel your pain!
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