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.