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Subject:Re: photo of vanagon fire: illiteracy
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:10:01 -0700

Its not just spelling Jeff, but the complete lack of structure in peoples'
emails.

There are a couple of Listees here whose posts I simply skip because of the
lack of rhythm and structure.

I'm sure I'm missing out on some good information but ......

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:45 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:

> > >>>
> > Great caption:  "your`e fired"
> > Let us take a moment to pray for our education system.
> >
> >
> > It's not just the US. Proper spelling and grammar are not taught anywhere
> > these days. No wonder so many on this list (for instance) are illiterate.
> >
>
> Uhhh, you'd be amazed at how many CEO's and other "highly educated" folks
> can't spell worth a damn. Or figure out how to use their telephone. I once
> worked for a company that had a VP who flew the SR-71 Blackbird cross
> country, yet he couldn't figure out the feature buttons on his telephone. I
> think a lot of it has to do with most of us "older" folks never really
> learned to type. When I was in high school (70's) only girls took typing-now
> ALL kids take it, but it's now called "keyboarding". My old ISP (Earthlink)
> the email program did an automatic spell check before sending. Not so with
> Comcast.     Jeff
>

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