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AZPaul3
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Message 9 of 131 (459756)
03-09-2008 6:28 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by pelican
03-09-2008 6:19 PM


Third, most people learn from experience that lower quality writing and spelling often accompany lower quality thinking.
This is absurd. Thinking has nothing to do with literacy.
I agree, it is absurd. However, we are dealing with humans here and perception is 90% of the reality.
Absurd or not, sloppy mechanics conveys the perception of a sloppy mind to one's audience.

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