> To be fair I was shocked when visiting the US how bad many Americans are at formulating themselves on paper. The thing about English is that it's such a clus

> To be fair I was shocked when visiting the US how bad many Americans are at formulating themselves on paper. The thing about English is that it's such a clusterfuck; slang, contractions, and "incorrect" grammar are hard to criticize when the language is already such a mess. Partly in jest, I liken it to a linguistic Broken Windows Theory[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory