From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!bsg Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: people who live in glass houses... Article-I.D.: npois.1567 Posted: Mon Aug 2 10:46:44 1982 Received: Tue Aug 3 00:37:11 1982 rvpalliende (?) is at it again. Not only does he persist in using an INCORRECT spelling which he knows annoys many readers of this newsgroup, but he dares to write articles, in bad English, suggesting "improvements" to the language. Does he really know first-graders who read as well as "five graders?" I guess five graders are a quintet of exam-markers... Also, I object strongly to the following statement by utzoo!henry: "Non-phonetic reading is *the* major cause of the wave of illiteracy in school graduates in the last decade or so." Nonsense. They've been teaching non-phonetic reading for several centuries; how did it suddenly start "causing" illiteracy? The causes of illiteracy may be many and varied, but I really don't see where non-phonetic reading fits into the picture at all.Billie Goldstein Bell Labs Neptune NJ ...!npois!bsg P.S. The circular definition and the "written hiccough" are intentional. Please don't post/mail to correct me.