‘An agonising lie’
I JUST read Ger Colleran on how ‘we’re beguiled by a big, agonising lie’ that romanticises war (MoS, November 11). He is exactly right, like it or not.
Phyl Kennedy-Bruen, Galway city. SO WHEN did it become acceptable to start sentences with the word ‘so’, which is only properly used as a conjunction linking clauses within a sentence?
And why, oh why, has the rhetorical question become so pervasive in spoken and written English? Do people not know that rhetorical questions are redundant and pointless?
It seems to be a millennial trend that shoddy new forms of English are not only acceptable, but almost compulsory.
Well, speaking as someone who was born almost closer to the first millennium than to the second, I have news for all the hipsters: good English is timeless, and bad English is hopeless.
So enough already! Let’s learn our young people to talk and write proper! John O’Sullivan, Carrigaline, Co. Cork.