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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: illiterate submitter's to the net (from net.columbia)
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 17:23:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 17:23:31 1983
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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)

  > ...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.

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Should be sub-teenagers, shouldn't it??
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  > 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 
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I question your use of the semicolon here.
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  > was spelled wrong (and that's the last straw).

  > I can tolerate a reasonable amount of bad grammer -- after all you can't 
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Should be grammar.
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  > 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.

        
If you are going to set yourself up as an example, then you should be
able to live up to the high standards you set.  After all, this article
was about misuse of grammar and misspellings.  You should at least be
able to avoid those errors yourself in that particular article, since
it is so important to you.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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