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I know that there are accepted abbreviations for certain words but even then, the rest of the words are often badly spelt, the grammar is atrocious and the punctuation non-existent.Have education standards really dropped to such a low level?Glad that some of you managed to pick up that the question IS grammatically correct.It is not a question of passing a GCSE exam (I failed English Language O-level first time around), it is a question of being able to express yourself in an intelligible manner. I can't read half of YA it is so bad. And that is taking into account those who are not native speakers. FYI, I have enough experience with non-native speakers, living in Germany and working in the Netherlands, to be able to give them the benefit of the doubt.Dyslexia is a problem but not one that affects such a large number of YA users - then it is an excuse.I am by no means looking for perfection - ARE is correct in the question but I wouldn't immediately fall over IS; I just want to be able to read the questions and answers, preferably in an understandable form of English.Bungy, I checked once, when I had finished.fox00952: yes, I used abysmal. And?I don't understand your answer.Thanks TROLL. Du auch!If you can't do an umlaut, put an e after the vowel: "schoenen".Believe me, I do try very hard to understand some of the posts but they are often so disjointed that there could be three or more different meanings.