WE HAVE ALL SAID PROBLEMATIC CLAIMS
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Replying to @simplic10 @St_Rev
I nearly ranted about this! Is no one on this committee a native English speaker? Or is standard diction problematic now?
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I’m trying to figure out why pointing at this does not seem petty.
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I was a clueless student radical as a teenager, but I could write standard English. Is this significant somehow?
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Replying to @Meaningness @simplic10
Students, at an elite university, editing the newspaper.
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Replying to @St_Rev @simplic10
I do feel they ought to be able to write. But their wrong ideas are vastly more important. Significant connection?
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I want to say that being able to write is pretty much the same as being able to think—but not sure of evidence for this.
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And if main author is *not* a native English speaker, and it’s considered un-p.c. to standardize their usage, >
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> I guess I don’t have a big quarrel with that.
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Replying to @Meaningness @simplic10
Nah, there's no trace of another language here, just cramped, impoverished duckspeak.
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Maybe a hint of Jesse Jackson's marble-mouthed sermonizing.
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