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The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail

Posted by michael on from the ask-not-for-whom-the-spellchecker-tolls dept.

Dave writes "There is a pretty amusing/sad article about functional illiteracy when it comes to professional e-mails. Some of the samples are just ridiculous."

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  1. Re:How they become? by zurab · · Score: 1, Redundant
    ... we definately have a serious problem with the schools/students/teachers when we have a lower literacy rate than there was in 1900.

    You sound very convincing in your argument.
  2. SPELLING - SHMELLING.... by d474 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who said spelling was important!!!!?

    I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt...

    Grammer, is different now a that story!

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  3. Ptetry Dman Itnetesirng by bechdol · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

  4. Re:How they become? by ThJ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's something annoying about that in written English. There's an "I" coming up there, and it just feels very very natural to insert a comma at that position, as if starting a new 'subsentence'. Not adding the comma makes the first "I" feel redundant. "When I eat, I..." feels much better than "When I eat I...". Don't ask me why. It just does.