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Blogs are great - if we avoid slang

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Writing blogs has become a mania which has swept all walks of life, all over the world. A lot of teenagers write what happened that day on their blog instead of in a diary.

I am worried that this trend is damaging young people's language skills. When people write a blog, they generally use colloquial language and slang. This means they can forget how to structure proper paragraphs.

On the other hand, writing a blog is a good way of training your memory - you have to remember what you did that day to write about it.

It's also a good way to practise writing.

I think a blog can be a useful tool. We just have to avoid the temptation to use slang.

Cheung Yip-kuen

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