[lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jul 11 10:37:35 PDT 2008


Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > Why do Americans write so badly?

This is crazy; there is no conceivable route to demonstrating that Americans or any other huge random group do or don't write badly. Moreover, "write badly" in the abstract is an equallly mindless phrase. Judgment of writing is wholly a matter of decorum, of the interrelationship of a set of factors in a given context. What idiocy! Jesus!

Carrol



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