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> 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.

Tell me about it.  
I have 8 kids, NONE of which can recognize grammar in a subjunctive
tense if they should ever meet one.
Spelling is an antiquated fixation to them, they're phonetic, it's our
fault if we can't understand; and should we understand, cleerly they
spelld it rite (srry if im punching ur gag-reflex, imma spell it rite
hereafter)

*sigh*  They touch-type twice as fast as I can.  Go figure.


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//me (Grammar Nazi for hire, I work for free)
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