The social rank of language in these here united states

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1. Senior managers take pride in their inability to write clearly; it shows that they do not have to do work.
   
   
2. Reading, like religion, is now an activity reserved for children, women, and the old. Men in their prime do not read books.
   
   
3. People who speak in complete sentences or, worse, entire paragraphs are labeled as "foreign", "possibly homosexual" (if male), or "stuck up".
   
   
4. People who do not read well or speak clearly, but are either wealthy or very religious, are regarded as being wiser than writers or readers.
   
   
5. Poetry has been dead for almost 100 years.
   
   
6. Short short stories, vignettes, and blogs are the largest pieces of text that anyone under 50 wants to consume.
   
   
7. Dialogue in film has been replaced with sound effects.
   
   
8. Inarticulate illiteracy is mistaken for sincerity.
   

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh! Ooh! And well thought out discourse on the current state of literacy in our culture is reduced to a numbered list. Paragraphs are for sissies.

; )

Hey, let's face it:

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It's the 21st century. I don't have time to read about reading. Just collapse it to bullet points; I got stuff to do here.

executive summary

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• shit sucks

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ha, ha. pwn3d. ;)

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So are anonymous comments!