In which Cherry is offensive.

The dreck that some people seem to think constitutes proper English -- or that they seem to believe constitutes usage of the English language at all -- continues to amaze me.

I am not speaking of some of more questionable literature published professionally, or of some of the more amusing fan fiction out there.

There are a surprisingly high number of my fellow engineering students whom I honestly consider to be barely literate. When it comes to group reports or labs, I find that I tend to have to go through each page to ensure that it is written at least at a fifth-grade level.

It occurs to me that I may come across as rather elitist, and that the simplest recourse would simply be ceasing to care. I would never claim that my grammar is impeccable -- goodness knows, it's much easier for me to catch mistakes in papers or stories someone other than myself has written -- but I find it more and more frustrating that so many people around me seem to have failed to achieve a basic competency in their native tongue.

There is simply no way in which "These data Suggests that solar gain through thermal mass is no economical" is is a sentence. There just isn't.