It's not as sophisticated
as the language of The Wall Street Journal.
Well, the fact of the matter is,
look at this person in 1956,
and this is when texting doesn't exist,
"I Love Lucy" is still on the air.
"Many do not know the alphabet or multiplication table,
cannot write grammatically -- "
We've heard that sort of thing before,
not just in 1956. 1917, Connecticut schoolteacher.
1917. This is the time when we all assume
that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect
because the people on "Downton Abbey" are articulate,
or something like that.
So, "From every college in the country goes up the cry,
'Our freshmen can't spell, can't punctuate.'"
And so on. You can go even further back than this.
It's the President of Harvard. It's 1871.
There's no electricity. People have three names.
"Bad spelling,
incorrectness as well as inelegance of expression in writing."