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On my alma mater's BBS, where I still keep in touch with old friends from college, an apparently new student posted a comment where s/you/u/g and questions didn't end in question marks, etc., and it was generally difficult to read.
I noted that if she had a point, it wasn't getting through, because reading her post gave me a headache, and I couldn't bear to get through it. I wrongly suspected the person might realize from this that communication is a two-way street, that to be understood, you need to be understandable.
She responded that I was overreacting, that there was nothing wrong with how she was writing. I tried to express the idea that most people won't bother to read her posts if she continued, and that they will mostly think of her as a careless, illiterate, sloppy person.
For this, some chastised me, saying all people make language errors, and we shouldn't judge people based on their cultural writing styles.
Flummery! I won't apologize for forming my impressions of people by how they present themselves. Why this is a difficult concept for people to grasp, I do not know.
because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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At some point in the last 20 years, "how a person feels" overtook "whether or not the work is effective" in our school system. Not sure how, or precisely when. But this is the result. We've got a bunch of people who temporarily feel happy, but then go on to lead miserable lives because they aren't told that some things work and other things don't, and that life isn
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"Perl users are the Greatful Dead fans of computer science." --slashdot comment
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Only sometimes? I thought they [uschamber.com] were *always* out to make a buck off me!
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Yes, and it's insidious.
Back when I was a child, we were taught "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me." This good adage wasn't actually taught in schools, but transmitted by society.
My daughter was taught in the public school "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can break my heart." The clear implication being that psychological damage
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Note to self: teach William better versions.
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--Nat
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It's much less of an investment to teach kids to write however they want, restricting spelling/grammar correction to limited times during the year. You don't have to be the ogre, so there's less friction with the kids. You also get more output from them, so it looks more impressive to parents.
The major advantage of teaching kids that grammar and spelling are always important is that,
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I did sorta realize at the time she was a good teacher, but I still didn't like her.
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Not just sad. Disgusting.
Is it any wonder, really, that homeschooling has experienced explosive growth in
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The whole concept of forcing a group of children into a holding pen for eight hours or so is pretty heinous. We should not be surprised when people treated in this way periodically do something horrible [nothingness.org].