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A recent survey of 120 American corporations [...] by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training.

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"hI KATHY i am sending u the assignmnet again," one student wrote to her recently. "i had sent you the assignment earlier but i didnt get a respond. If u get this assgnment could u please respond . thanking u for ur cooperation."

I expected this to be a problem, but not to this degree.  I certainly don't see it at my company, with the exception of a certain Bush-backing fellow out East who loved excessive punctuation, but reined it in since someone chided him about it.

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Same here. LJ and Usenet generally get punctuation, capital letters, typo fixes. IRC is undercapitalized, typos although sometimes corrected are much more likely to make it thru, and questions often lose their final "?".

I'm a bit surprised by how few complaints I get, given the audience. Deliberately using the occasional locally nonstandard spelling such as "color" attracts (slightly) more opposition...