December 2006 — Editorial

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U r HeRe

And it’s a response McDivitt sees as validation of his methods. He makes a strong case. Plus, you can rest assured you’ve reached old-fogeyville when you’re decrying teenage slang, and who wants to face up to that? But it’s a debate worth having: whether exciting students about written expression is desirable if it encourages them to surrender their English skills.

Myself, I like rules. Seen correctly, rules set you free. And I like paragraph breaks. My blogging youth: Paragraph breaks create tempo; no paragraph breaks create vertigo. Plus, all that interspersing of uppercase and lowercase— it takes too much work to appear that random. Then again, I can’t find too much fault with a world where I can get away with calling someone an SOB (successful and outstanding blogger). Oh, man, LMAO!

You better look that one up yourself.

— Jeff Weinstock, Executive Editor

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