Meanwhile, the title of the super PAC supporting Mr. Romney, "Restore Our Future, " seems to bend the rules of space and time, if not grammar.

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In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.

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Those applicants, he says, haven't studied trigonometry, "esoteric" vocabulary or grammar rules in years, nor do they have the time to do so now.

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One teacher from a grammar school who contacted the BBC News website said he spent some time looking at "appallingly badly written personal statements with stupefyingly banal references to jobs in fish and chip shops or restaurants".

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In an article Michel and Lieberman Aiden published in the January 14 2011 issue of Science, one of the top research journals, they used a database of 4% of all the books ever printed between 1800 and 2000 to show how grammar, censorship practices, and the rate at which new technologies are adopted over time.

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Privately educated at Manchester Grammar School, Gill opted against going to university in order to pursue a full-time career in football.

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It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time.

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So the next time someone tells you that the Internet is making us stupid, respond that our visual syntax and grammar is more sophisticated than it has ever been.

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