how to use word "scourge" in sentences?
I've heard this word from the sentence " The texting is a scourge of language" .
I know that "scourge" means something that causes great suffering or a lot of trouble but I just wonder when I can use this word or are there any particular rules for using this?

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" The texting is a scourge of language"
It means "Texting causes the degradation of english language as the texting people always uses shortform  of word ( "r" instead of "are" etc)."

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www.thefreedictionary.com/scourge

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