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Old 02-04-2010, 09:25 AM
Ch2tf Ch2tf is offline
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Originally Posted by christiangirl View Post
If you don't have sense enough to not use textspeak in your essay, you would've failed anyway.
^^^THIS.

I understand the socialization aspect, but it boggles my brain that prior to college the writing and grammar of these students wasn't addressed enough that they don't know the difference. I honestly can't conceive of a situation like that at all, minus a complete lack of formal education.
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