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Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 7, 2003, 16:12
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. -- What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the John Cowan sound of a [Ww]all that people have stopped jcowan@reutershealth.com banging their head against? --Larry http://www.ccil.org/~cowan