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To: jude24
I shouldn't have to work hard to understand someone's argument. I should be able to readily focus on the content.

Yeah, right,,,heaven forbid you have to work hard.

Like it or not, FR is not a judged "writing" contest. If it's a strain on your little brain to read something not in paragraphs, then I'd say you have a problem, and probably a victim of PS's:) especially given the fact that you seem to only feel better about yourself running someone else down.

Becky

199 posted on 04/18/2006 11:48:51 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Ride a Quarter Horse, it's good for the spirit)
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; jude24; 13Sisters76
Yeah, right,,,heaven forbid you have to work hard.

Like it or not, FR is not a judged "writing" contest. If it's a strain on your little brain to read something not in paragraphs, then I'd say you have a problem, and probably a victim of PS's:) especially given the fact that you seem to only feel better about yourself running someone else down.

Like it or not, on FR or anywhere else, people are more likely to read what you say if the formatting, spelling, grammar, and so on don't distract from the content.

IMO, those of us who self-identify as public school teachers have a special obligation to use at least decent writing skills, lest we feed on certain prejudices about how stupid and incompetent "publik skool teechurs" are. That's not to say that we don't all make typos and errors from time to time....

(And am I the only one who finds something ironic about one poster complaining that another "seem[s] to only feel better about yourself running someone else down" after the first poster makes sarcastic comments about the other's "little brain"?)

202 posted on 04/18/2006 1:41:07 PM PDT by Amelia (Education exists to overcome ignorance, not validate it.)
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