Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] RE: While it is happening (B. D. Colen)writing going dwnhll
From: nbeddoe at lehman.com (Beddoe, Neil)
Date: Tue Jun 22 07:33:12 2004

You can't prove it of course.  One useful barometer though is the power and
conciseness of the language used by political leaders.   Can you imagine
Bush delivering something like FDR's "Fear itself" speech or Tony Blair
coming up with "never in the field of human conflict..."

Neil


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From: animal [mailto:s.jessurun95@chello.nl] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:11 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: While it is happening (B. D. Colen)writing going
dwnhll


> 
> Now, as to the proliferation of writing tools improving writing...I
> think just the opposite may be true. While Email is probably causing
> more people to communicate in writing, the quality of writing today has
> markedly deteriorated over that of a few decades ago, and appears to be
> going nowhere but downhill.
> 
How can you prove such a statement?
simon
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