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Americans Read Fewer Books
DesScorp writes "The National Endowment for the Arts has released a study that shows a decline in the reading of fiction, poetry, and short stories. The study began in 1982, but shows a particularly steep decline from 1992-2002, the first decade of the Age of the Internet. They never seem to draw the conclusion that the Net may have accelerated our turn from this kind of reading, but the timing seems suspicious to me. I know I don't read for pleasure as much as I did years ago because of the time spent on the Net (and in technical books). NPR has a good audio link here for you non-readers; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a nice article as well." You could also - assuming you read - see the study itself.
Another all-too-common mistakes
s/mistakes/mistake/. Typos like mine do happen - I won't deny that. The fact remains though, that, the kinds of mistakes I describe are far too common to be easily dismissed as simple typos.
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s/mistakes/mistake/. Typos like mine do happen - I won't deny that. The fact remains though, that, the kinds of mistakes I describe are far too common to be easily dismissed as simple typos.
Hahaha elitist! =) Somehow "alot" is a crime against humanity when someone like myself commits it, yet yourself using the wrong plurality is but a slip of the finger? I am aware that "a lot" is spelled with a space, but that damn spacebar is just so slippery.
It's okay to be elitist, I am too. I find it pretty funny when people complain about CD's and such being $17. I only buy underground albums that generally go for around $7, usually on vinyl too.
Shouldn't You expect more from your DJ?
I'm all for taking time to get it right, but the guy looks like he might have a heart attack any day: http://www.georgerrmartin.com/images/gm-cub.jpg
I just don't want GRRM to die before the damn story is completed.
Somehow "alot" is a crime against humanity when someone like myself commits it
There's no need to get defensive about it and stoop to name-calling. I specifically acknowledged that yours could just as easily have been a typo. Still, like I said in my followup, it belongs to a class of mistakes that occur far too commonly to easily dismiss them all as typos. One can only stretch cooincidence so far before it breaks.
Typos happen to me, you, and everyone else. But look around, at the posts here and many other places. Typos are random, but the same mistakes are being made, over and over again. That's not random - that indicates a trend.
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