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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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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

An excerpt from typical mail sent us by a corporate web service customer:

I re sent testing e mails i guess they all worked because i didnt get returned mail info back. only one that i did get back was for [name redacted] which i told you about. the other thing since i guess they did go through i didnt get a copy of any like i always do.I get copies because i file them away in a folder in case they arent getting mail on there end.

He's one of the worst, but mostly that's due to his quantity of output.