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I agree with you there, reading is very important. I think most grade schools have been pressing the reading lately on the younger ones; my daughter's certainly one of them. (But luckily, she likes it.)
Yes, our slips (and mine there, too) are getting excessive. It starts out as just a "time-saver", but it's evolving into a new language.
Sadly, laziness prevails. There are some people who are legitimately dyslexic (like my husband for example): very intelligent people... they just can't see that a word is wrong. However there are those that just willingly submit to the laziness and allow it to take over. That's what drives me nuts. We've really gotten to a point where we just can't live without our Spell Checker. (Geeze, lets get a bit lazier! ...And they wonder why we as a nation are getting progressively fatter.... sure, blame McDonalds.) As great as it is (and I use it too,) relying too much on our wonderful devices we've invented, results in things like this coming from a very large corporation in an apology letter, addressed to me: "And we'd like to sincerely apologize for any incontinence this may have caused you."
Sure, it was inconvenient, but I really don't think I pooped my pants about it.
As I'm sure you are, I was quite literally in laughter-tears upon reading that little morsel. Come on, people... accept that we are human, we make mistakes... but please, at least let it be your own mistake!
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~Jaycee
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