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From: stevesu@bronze.UUCP (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: net.ann.landers
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Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 12:54:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 12:54:59 1983
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I read this in the paper this morning, but it belongs here:
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Dear Ann Landers:

How much education have you had?  Your use of the English
language is so poor I can't believe you made it through the
seventh grade.

At least four times a week you leave a preposition dangling at
the end of a sentence.  And why do you always call people up? 
Who wants to be called up?  Up is not a name.  Why not simply
call them?

And why don't you correct the terrible grammar of those who write
to you?  Last week a woman said she reads you in the newspaper. 
She does not read you, she reads your column.  The poor,
illiterate thing went on to say she couldn't unbutton her blouse
in front of her husband "without him taking a leap at her."  She
is not concerned about him -- she is concerned about his taking a
leap at her.

Repeatedly you say, "She is marrying a man 20 years older than
herself."  The word you are looking for is she (in place of
herself).  I could go on and on, but I hope you get the idea. 
And please don't tell me that when some forms of English are read
regularly they become acceptable.  (P.S.: Kids are goats.)

                                             Aching Ears in N. J.
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Steve Summit