Mike Ellis scripsit:
> None of those things make spelling irrelevant.
You asked rhetorically, if mechanics are not what English papers are to be
judged on, what is? I replied.
> And consider your audience: what
> good are arguments if your reader can't decipher the text?
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/S&Vletters.html
> The student in question demonstrates a form of English
> which is more dumbed-down and esoteric than ever before.
For the first time today I saw texting in an ad that was not for cellphone
service, used purely for its in-group/out-group effect.
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