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To: joe who wrote (1720)	1/14/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) of 4711

"joe" honey, I was beaten to death in a parochial school with grammar and usage on the elementary school level. Then came high school, where, because so many of my classmates (there were 51 of us!) did not have a good grounding in grammar, it was pounded in again. I entered college and ended up rewriting classmates' papers for grammar and organization (while teaching a course that no one knew about) as once again there was grammar being pounded into the unknowing. And then I went to Katie Gibbs to learn how to make $ while in grad school and damn it if we weren't put through a course in grammar! When I worked at the Bank of New York, there was a person whose master's degree was in grammar (?) and she and I used to fight to a draw on small points, things that no one ever cares about while reading. But, "joe" honey, doesn't it put your teeth on edge sometimes to see egregious errors on your screen? "Their" for "they're" and worse. This is not simply grammar; it is as I quoted from My Fair Lady the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue. Another great quote from the same song, "In America they haven't spoken it for years!"

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