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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: illiterate submitter's to the net
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 20:27:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 20:27:42 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Dec-83 02:10:02 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR.
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!inuxc!inuxg!hash writes:

>  distruction sell the news. That is why you hardly ever see a news report 
>  that is cheery unles it is at the end of the news report. As the song by   
>  Don Hanly goes "give us dirty laundry".As for these incompetent news   
>  reports go, the space shuttle is the safest flying mechine in the world.
>  NASA has provided a backup system of five onboard computers for the men to
>  use.(These are just the gp computers) If needed they (mission control) could
>  have fed the information into the system with out the aid of the on board
>  computers.

>  I know that the NBC network didn't even talk to the men after they had
>  disenbarked the space craft. Has anyone heard what the results from taking
>  the telescope up has been. i have yet to see any information on this project
>  as of yet. As for the question of the landing gear, i would have to say that
>  yes that was controled by the computers. 

...and so on (it gets worse).

GAK!!!

I sincerely hope that this article was meant to be a joke and not any 
attempt at a serious commentary.  If this is an example of the literacy
of a graduated engineering professional, heaven help us all.  Maybe if
we are lucky, it was written by one of the few sub-teenager's on the
net.

I cannot believe how badly this person has managed to mangle the english
language.  Just about every rule of grammar is ripped to bloody shreds.
Misspellings, bad puncuation, no knowledge of capitalization, poor sentence 
construction; it's an english teacher's nightmare.  Even Don Henley's name 
was spelled wrong (and that's the last straw).

I can tolerate a reasonable amount of bad grammer -- after all you can't 
expect everyone to be an english expert, but this causes me to almost lose 
my appetite.  If you can't communicate your thoughts in somewhat of a clear 
manner, how can you command the respect of your peers or the members of other 
professions. 

                          -- Walt Tucker 
                             Tektronix, Inc.
                             Wilsonville, OR.