Forget academia, I despair about our use of language on this list sometimes.
What is it about electronic communication that makes people get sloppy? I
suspect many people post on the list after a few beers, late at night,
including myself! In the following short (anonymised) paragraph from a
recent posting I have spotted no fewer than 15 errors of spelling and
punctuation - there are probably more! We all make one or two errors per
paragraph but this is ridiculous. I note the author purports to be an
academic; do academics not have to write?
OK, now I've got that off my chest, you can all accuse me of being the next
Liam Fox!!
Adrian Fogarty
make that a minority of 2, Tim ! however,I suspect their are many more SpR's
(at the sharp end ! ) in training coming close to FFAEM who appreciate the
more academic slant to the discussions' tossed into this arena who need more
then anectode and narrative to convince the examiners we are worthy !
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