Language and English

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Jan 7 07:54:38 2002

> > 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.

It could be of some archeoligical interest to note name and existence
of this this guy :)

Gruss
H.

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