I was under the impression that to acquire an English degree one had to grasp at least the basics of punctuation; full stop, comma and apostrophe.
English degrees are about literary criticism, not grammar. If she is documentably dyslexic, they would have made provisions for that, too. I've met a lot of English majors who couldn't punctuate to save their lives, and not all of them were dyslexic (like being a doctor -- what do you call someone who had a C average in med school?).
But I'm kind of peeved about the endless snarking of her grammar -- if she's dyslexic, that just means she needs a good editor and proofreader, not that she should be forbidden to write. If she's not dyslexic, okay, she's just lazy. But none of us have seen her learning disability evaluations.
There are plenty of OTHER reasons she shouldn't be allowed to write.
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Date: 2006-04-23 04:17 am (UTC)English degrees are about literary criticism, not grammar. If she is documentably dyslexic, they would have made provisions for that, too. I've met a lot of English majors who couldn't punctuate to save their lives, and not all of them were dyslexic (like being a doctor -- what do you call someone who had a C average in med school?).
But I'm kind of peeved about the endless snarking of her grammar -- if she's dyslexic, that just means she needs a good editor and proofreader, not that she should be forbidden to write. If she's not dyslexic, okay, she's just lazy. But none of us have seen her learning disability evaluations.
There are plenty of OTHER reasons she shouldn't be allowed to write.