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[rone]

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.

Comments

[loser-variable.livejournal.com]

It was fine; no loss of clarity. I'm also terrible at sticking to a tense. Just had to flip you some grief for singling out a Bushieboy.

Excessive punctuation is brutal on the reader and does leap out. I overcomma, myself.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Just had to flip you some grief for singling out a Bushieboy.

With my current moratorium (http://ronebofh.livejournal.com/239233.html), that's as topical as i can get... OK, so i was feeling petty.

I overcomma, myself.

I have an enabling relationship with semicolons.