Language and English

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 15:50:47 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dan Wright wrote:

> Damn, people, do you think we could give this a rest already? If it bugs you
> to read shit that's, well, hard to read, just use the "delete" button. That's
> what I do. For god's sake, I majored in English, and I seem to be less
> worried about it then many others on this list ;-)

In my freshman year at the University of Michigan in the early postwar
years I took a semester course in English taught by an instructor who
acknowledged he could not spell and stated to the class that he "didn't
think it was important". Seems likely he was one of the early advocates
that started us on the downhill road to where we are now.

                                                 - don
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