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Has anyone else noticed the erosion of literacy in today's magazines?
Two recent examples:
1. The January Sound&Vision is reviewing a new $8000 integrated from Yamaha.
The first sentence asks: "Are you drooling over those massive UV meters?"
(Don't they mean VU meters?)
2. Another review (can't remember the source) describes some speakers as
"immanently listenable". I think they meant "eminently listenable".
Cowabunga!
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gz3827
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It has always amazed me that diagramming sentences went by the boards. Oh well, now we have Twitter! How's that for progress? LOL

PS. In my case though I must admit that diagramming sentences went hand in hand with nuns, which was a truly fearsome combination :-)
gz3827
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Plato, I could be wrong, but I suspect English is not the first language of the seller in the example you cite. There are lots of people on Audiogon for whom English is not the first language. That's a different issue than the decline and fall of the English language amongst the U.S. populace, which I think is the point of the OP.
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