On 6/30/11 7:02 PM, JR van Rensburg wrote:
> Thus rendering a generation that is incapable of writing anything 
> intelligible.
My daughter did a short stint teaching first year college (USA) students 
English. It was terrifying. She let us read some of the papers people 
presented in a *writing* class. The inability to spell aside (I can't to 
save my life) the horrible composition process and use of "Internet 
abbreviations" was truly *pathetic*.

To think that a college student would turn-in a paper that uses 
abbreviations instead of full words such as "ur" in place of "you are" 
is mind-boggling.

My sincere apologies to everyone here for participating of the hijacking 
of this thread.