<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Future Imperative</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Essential to efficiency.<br>When writing prose or poetry.<br>Elegant simplicity, <br> will enhance the clarity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of what you’re trying to convey<br> in the most artistic way<br>Although it makes me sad to say <br>Standards are slipping day by day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Communicating at high speed.<br>Young people do not see the need. <br>For rules they think needs must impede.<br>The messages they want to read..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The youngsters use technology<br> to sweep away the pedantry.<br>By far the vast majority<br> adapted to it readily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A small vocal minority<br>Bemoaned the loss of purity<br>And stubbornly refused to see.<br>That language changes constantly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That in the future there would be<br> a greater need potentially.<br>A switch towards simplicity<br> and even less formality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flowery language of the past<br> was very slowly overcast.<br>It was too cumbersome to last.<br>When change is due it happens fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The need for speed bound to increase.<br>That does not mean that we should cease.<br>To write in ways that please<br> and make each work a masterpiece.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Communicating speedily<br> a modern day necessity<br>But we don’t need to let it be<br>Destroyer of our literacy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have free will so we can choose <br>What form of language we should use<br>What to accept or to refuse<br>We stand to gain more than we lose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can store electronically<br> more books than any library<br>of any merit literally<br> on one small chip quite easily</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nerds can txt phonetically<br>Where speed is a priority.<br>While scholars maintain purity<br>Of classic prose and poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunday,21 August 2011<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413903" data-title="Future Imperative de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Essential to efficiency. When writing prose or poetry. Elegant simplicity, will enhance the clarity. Of what you’re trying to convey in the most artistic way Although it makes me sad to say Standards are slipping day by day. Communicating ..."></div> </div> </div>

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