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Old 05-13-2019, 06:16 PM   #269 (permalink)
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I want to agree

but the degree to which adult students I've peer reviewed sux the ass at formal writing actually upset me
Well then your idea of how formal writing defines how people should speak should be shot in the head because speach only exists to communicate ideas and if people are effectively communicating ideas to one another then there is no problem.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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