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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Rambi who wrote (1519)9/5/1998 1:19:00 PM
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Maybe when you said he would "benefit," you meant the quality of his music would improve, but what caused him to make it big was less the quality of his music, and more some others of his attributes. A talent for PR, or for staging, or for putting his musical finger on the zeitgeist, or for making friends in useful places, for example. You were probably both right.

I completely agree with you about how insane it is to deprive children of grammar and spelling training. I even suspect that this trend is fueled by the teachers' awareness that they don't know the rules themselves. It would be different if the children were emerging from their early school years into a reading, text-based culture; maybe in that case, they would learn to use the language later, by osmosis, from exposure to good writing. But that's not the situation. It's a TV world.
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