[Osx-nutters] Writing Off Reading

[Jared ''Danger'' Earle]

On 22 Aug 2006, at 23:15, Jeffrey Hergan wrote:
> That's no exaggeration.  In any given class a handful of students  
> will write worse than the example above.  The majority will write  
> at that level or a little bit better.  And a handful will write  
> much better.  It's pathetic that students are allowed entry into  
> universities without learning basic grammar.  It's even worse that  
> professors in all fields will pass students who can't express  
> themselves in writing.  More than once I've asked other profs how  
> they could pass students who can't write.  Their answer (always):   
> "It's not my job to teach writing."  And I've received that reply  
> from _English_ profs.  Sad.

What bugs me is the explosion in the number of dyslexic people I've  
met over the last few years, even though dyslexia itself hasn't  
increased.

YOU ARE NOT DYSLEXIC, YOU ARE JUST LAZY.

Yes, yes, I know there are some truly dyslexic people, but nowhere  
near the number that claim it. Trust me, if you're truly dyslexic,  
you get financial aid for laptops and the like. You don't have that?  
Oh, that must be because you're a lazy twunt, pretending to have an  
ailment that allows you to be even lazier.

Oh, and SMSing/IMing doesn't help.

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