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Hi everyone. Is there life before death?

I am from Wales and also now teach English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "In understanding how to read a paper, we need to start at the beginning with a few preliminaries."

With respect 8-), Tug.

Tug of AR @ Feb 23, 2009 00:43:50 AM

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bob of AK @ Feb 19, 2009 08:35:14 AM

the dumbing down of America

So you want a demoncracy,lets all dumb down.Standards have slipped dramatically in America already.The health system is fragmented,and the best minds do not want to endure medmal insurance and the "business" now of providing health care.Who cares about the spellin of antthang?Social darwinists will be amazaed we as a society lasted this long in 100 years.

Dash Riproc of PA @ Feb 03, 2009 23:37:47 PM

To sue of KS

To sue of KS

FYI, alright is an acceptable way to spell all right.

From Merriam-Webster:

usage The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alright

V of CA @ Jan 27, 2009 15:03:03 PM

Hear! Here!

I am in agreement with challenging people to a higher standard of CORRECT spelling and language! The dumb-downing of Americans is ridiculous. Daily I witness a number of misspelled words... "mannor" instead of "manner” not a typo which I can forgive...the "o" key and the "e" keys are nowhere near one another! To the wind with all the back-sliders accepting mediocrity as a standard (i.e. alot for a lot; alright for all right, nuculear for nuclear) Give me a break already or should I say all ready?!

My Grandparents taught us, there is only one way to do something, "Do it right or not at all!" Do your best!

sue of KS @ Jan 24, 2009 07:18:06 AM

patient advocacy

There's no question that as economic pressures on our health care system impose reimbursement reductions for providers and service limitations for patients - patient advocates will be in demand. Our system is dysfunctional and fragmented, and it's the most expensive health care system in the world. Yet despite the enormous amount of money we spend on healthcare in the US, we measure poorly on health outcomes when compared against other developed nations. Clearly we're not meeting the needs of patients as well as we should.

We have to fix this. Sarah Lawrence College has the only master's degree in Health Advocacy in the US. We're looking for committed people who want to address these issues.

Laura Weil of NY @ Jan 12, 2009 13:20:22 PM

grammar

GETALIFE or, more correctly, GET A LIFE

ROSCOE of NJ @ Jan 06, 2009 17:48:33 PM

Language

I'm with Eric Jay of CA. Though I may not always be grammatically correct in my writing or spelling, I rely on the experts to be. I've given up on advertisers and the words they use (You'll want to 'rock' these boots!), but I hope that a professional article regarding career would be perfectly composed.

I still have a problem with the mispronunciation of words becoming part of our vernacular. "Nucular" is acceptable for the correct "nuclear"? Thank you GWB. I'm certain he says "realator" too. Forget about "alright", soon enough it will be acceptable to write "ite".

Kim of CA @ Jan 06, 2009 12:26:29 PM