re: #165 Cato the Elder

Grammar and spelling fell by the wayside long before texting and Twitter.

Back when I was editor-in-chief at a publishing company, a colleague taking part-time classes toward a degree asked me to proof a paper she had written.

It was probably unethical of me even to do it, but I did. When she got my corrections, she came back to me near tears. “Am I really that bad of a writer?” Well, actually, yes. I didn’t have to say it in so many words; the red marks spoke for themselves. Hell, she asked an editor to edit her work.

Later I asked her immediate superior about it, who told me that even in grad school these days, no professor or TA worries about spelling, grammar, syntax or general solecisms. Your grade depends merely on whether you sorta-kinda get the general idea across. In other words, as long as you spew back whatever PC garbage you were indoctrinated with, it’s all good.

So I guess you aren’t too much a fan of Lolcats?

“I Kan haz Cheezburgr!”
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