When considering the necessity of paper documents vs online documents it seemed relatable to the argument over grammar on the web.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sirajdatoo/ways-it-pays-to-be-a-grammar-nerd-9o1f

Open up your Twitter account. Chances are there are a 10 billions Tweets on that site that don’t have any capitalization or punctuation. So the question is, are we moving away from the rules of formal writing?

Consider the Constitution:  yellow, aged, paper cracked. The document itself is full of history; a source of pride for everyone in this country.

But if you’re doing a project on the Constitution, are you going to go to the National Archives and read it behind Plexiglas? No! You’ll Google it and read it online.

The internet has entirely changed the way we view primary sources for research and enlightenment. I just wonder if it’s doing the same to how we view our language as a whole.